Language, Ethnicity, and the Schools : Policy Alternatives for Bilingual-Bicultural Education

Language, Ethnicity, and the Schools : Policy Alternatives for Bilingual-Bicultural Education

Polarizing 1970s policy text describing structural aspects of bilingual/bicultural school programs. From ERIC: "This book presents a discussion paper of policy alternatives for bilingual-bicultural education. It also includes two critiques of the paper. Since the enactment of the Bilingual Education Act, the U.S. Office of Education has sponsored programs to help low achieving students with little or no command of English by teaching reading, math, and other subjects in the native language. Although not a failure, this approach does not demonstrate that it makes a difference in terms of student achievement, or acquisition of English...."

Epstein, Noel

Institute for Educational Leadership, George Washington University

1977

en

Book

1970s; United States

No

104

Washington, D.C.

Institute for Educational Leadership, George Washington University

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