1. Bilingual Education
... ; Heritage Language; Sheltered Content Instruction Overview The education of "bilingual" students in the U.S. has always been closely tied to political, economic and social concerns. As a nation of immigrants, the U.S. was founded by colonists from multiple language backgrounds and nationalities. While early private schools were quickly established to teach colonial children, schools were generally segregated by communities so that students studied in ... parents in Los Angeles complained that their children were not learning English in bilingual programs (One Nation/One California, 1997...
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