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- Title: Bilingual Education: Lessons from Abroad for America's Pending Crisis
- Author : Washington University Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 147 KB
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INTRODUCTION Bilingual education has been the cause of much debate in the United States over the last several decades. As the country continues to see a proportional increase in its minority populations, especially those that have recently emigrated from non-English speaking nations, the debate over the necessity and practicality of a bilingual educational system will likewise grow more prevalent. (1) In fact, recent studies have shown that immigrant children are "the fastest growing sector of the U.S. child population." (2) Although at its birth the United States faced a rich ethnolinguistic diversity and employed a multitude of educational policies, the country has largely seen the assimilation of linguistic minorities into the larger English-speaking majority. (3)
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