1. The History of Bilingual Education in America
... in other countries has been an attempt to restrict a minority group or to assert a newly formed country's independence. For example, when Slovakia separated from Czechoslovakia, one of the first orders of business was to declare Slovak as the official language. Now, King says: doctors in state hospitals must speak to patients in Slovak, even if another language would aid ... diagnosis and treatment. Some 600,000 Slovaks - more than ten percent of the population - are ethnically Hungarian. Even staff meetings in Hungarian-language schools must be in Slovak. (The government dropped a stip...
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