Sentences with phrase «on bilingual education»

Usually books on bilingual education are for teachers and little attention has been previously paid to how families can act to ensure that American public schools develop bilingual education programs for their children.

The passage of Proposition 58 in November 2016 removes restrictions on bilingual education in California, creating new educational opportunities, especially for the state's 1.4 million English learners.

These results shedding light on the effectiveness of four distinct instructional programs offered to ELLs in the San Francisco district come just as there's growing momentum to repeal California's 15 - year - old restrictions on bilingual education in public schools.

Bilingual Education: The federal government should stop focusing on bilingual education programs to help students with limited English proficiency, because there is little evidence that those programs work, a series of draft studies written for the U.S. Department of Education concludes.

IDRA conducted one of the first cost studies on bilingual education in 1976 and has performed other cost studies, including in Arizona, Utah and Colorado.

The passage of Proposition 58 in November 2016 removes restrictions on bilingual education programs for California's English Learner (EL) students, allowing California school districts to more easily create or expand bilingual and immersion programs.

The panel does not plan to hold further hearings on bilingual education, according to a subcommittee aide, but will «almost certainly» address it in the Senate counterpart of HR 5, the omnibus education bill passed by the House in April.

A review of the research on bilingual education shows that bilingual students also experience cognitive, social, and economic advantages.Gandara, P. (2015).

We are working with schools on bilingual education projects in countries such as Argentina, Bosnia, Croatia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.

The committee leaders agreed with the governor's spending proposals on bilingual education, low - performing priority school districts, adult education, the American School for the Deaf, vocational agriculture and health and welfare services that are provided to students in private schools.

Washington — The Education Department's new biennial report on bilingual education indicates that students with limited proficiency in English remain an underserved population and that many of the teachers who are trained to help them are, for some reason, not in programs utilizing those skills.

Despite moves to ease limits on bilingual education in California and Massachusetts, more ELLs are now learning in English, taught by teachers who use an array of strategies to reach nonfluent students.

WASHINGTON — Seeking a political consensus on bilingual education, the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week tentatively voted to expand federal support for «English only» alternative programs and to limit the amount of time a child may receive native - language instruction.

The 1974 law created the National Advisory Council on Bilingual Education to articulate a plan for a national policy in bilingual education.

Secretary of Education William J. Bennett launched the Reagan Administration's «initiative» on bilingual education Sept. 26.

«I tripped over a political issue on bilingual education.»

Shortly after making his first major statement on bilingual education last week, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett began turning his attention to another complex issue: the education of handicapped pupils.

A few years ago, a student strolled in and asked, quite casually, if I «buy» the «NYU line on bilingual education.»

View resources from the Cambridge Horizons seminar on Bilingual Education: Cognitive Benefits and Policy into Practice.

Listen to «Reflections on Bilingual Education Today and Beyond» IDRA Classnotes Podcast Episode 65

In general, the reaction all across the Internet to the Republican reversal on bilingual education was scathing, and others shared my view that it might constitute the last nail in the coffin for the dying California GOP that had once dominated the state during the eras of Reagan and Nixon.

They are very proud of their stance on bilingual education, despite the state's controversial Proposition 227.»

I recently took part in a broadcast panel discussion on bilingual education at the CCTV Center for Media & Democracy (Channel 17) in Burlington, Vermont, to both present my book, The Bilingual Revolution, and support efforts to create a bilingual educational experience in the school system of Burlington.

This would help, Gándara said, but creating a system that truly delivers on bilingual education may require legislative remedies — such as creating incentives for teachers to pursue their bilingual credentials.

I can't help thinking that Angilee Shah picked the data that would support her bias on bilingual education rather than approaching the issue with an open mind («A New School of Thought,» July - August 2010).

Our emphasis on bilingual education and language immersion is a big part of what sets ISI apart from other educational options in the state of Indiana and the Midwest.

Grow your understanding of best practices at other schools: Explore the Expeditionary Learning Schools website, visit a green or bilingual school in your area, read Center for Applied Linguistics materials on bilingual education

Success in sports has brought new life to South High, a magnet school focused on bilingual education and the arts.

Washington — Children who are taught partly in their native language spend no more time in special classes than children taught primarily in English, are somewhat more likely to be reclassified as proficient in English, and receive more parental support, a long - awaited Education Department study on bilingual education has concluded.

The House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education continued hearings last month on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act with a hearing on bilingual education.

Rossell and Baker (1996) have also reviewed the research on bilingual education but concluded that bilingual programs are not as effective as all - English immersion programs.

The overwhelming approval by California voters of an initiative to end restrictions on bilingual education in its public schools marks another significant shift from the political expressions of racial and ethnic resentments that swirled across the state during the 1990s.

Several California school districts have pledged to protect the status of their undocumented students, and voters overwhelmingly voted in November to end nearly 20 - year - old restrictions on bilingual education...

Last November, 74 percent of California voters passed Proposition 58, repealing English - only instruction and removing restrictions on bilingual education.

In part because of the Lau ruling, the district has built up a robust offering of language - learning pathways, even as many districts around California either diminished or did away with their bilingual offerings in the wake of a 1998 state ballot measure that put severe restrictions on bilingual education.

Take for example Modoc County in California's far northeast corner, where 71 percent of voters cast their ballot for Trump, while 59 percent did so for ending the ban on bilingual education.

Here in Oakland, we are also fortunate to have plenty of state and local wins to be grateful for: voters approved money for schools (CA Prop 51 and Prop 55, Oakland Measure G1) and reversed the ban on bilingual education.

But, let's focus on real issues: school funding, high child poverty rates, poor public services to children and families, and realistic ways to deal with CA's extraordinarily high number of EL students and the ridiculous «ban» on bilingual education.