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Sarah Asson; Erica Frankenberg; Clémence Darriet; Lucrecia Santibañez; Claudia Cervantes-Soon; Francesca López – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Two-way dual language immersion programs (TWDL) aim to integrate English speakers and speakers of a partner language in the same classroom to receive content instruction in both languages. Stated goals include bilingualism and biliteracy, high academic achievement, and sociocultural competence. In school districts aiming to reduce segregation,…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Language of Instruction
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Hakuta, Kenji – Educational Researcher, 2011
This article describes one researcher's journey as an experimental psycholinguist through changes in practice and policy in the education of English language learners in the United States from the 1970s to the present day. The development of key debates on issues such as bilingualism, language of instruction, and the inclusion of English language…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Educational Change
Grant, Joseph H; Goldsmith, Ross – 1979
This report examines the most prominent decisions resulting from the 1974 Supreme Court Lau v. Nichols ruling that public schools cannot ignore the problems faced by students whose native language is other than English. Special attention is focused on the remedies that have been ordered to cure "Lau" violations. The activities of the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Donato, Ruben; Garcia, Herman – Equity and Excellence, 1992
Examines how U.S. public schools have responded to increasing numbers of limited English proficient students, given the limited supply of bilingual teachers and, in this context, examines language segregation in desegregated schools. Educational policymakers have a difficult time reconciling desegregation goals' requirements for comprehensible…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Court Litigation, Educational History