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Direct linkRossell, Christine H. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2000
Since the 1960s, the U.S. Department of Education has enthusiastically embraced bilingual education. In this paper, the author evaluates the federal bilingual education program. Based on her studies of the implementation of bilingual education in California, Massachusetts, and New York City, she concludes that the program is of dubious value. She…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Bilingual Education, Minority Group Children, Bilingualism
Download full textUlanoff, Sharon – 1993
The Metropolitan Educational Trends and Research Outcomes Center has identified seven projects in the southwestern United States and one in Massachusetts that exemplify the educational practices important in today's ethnolinguistically diverse classrooms. Preliminary findings indicate that each of these programs contains several critical elements…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Diversity (Student)
Castaneda, Lillian Vega – 1992
The Metropolitan Educational Trends and Research Outcomes Center conducts Improving Programs of Schools Serving Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student Populations, a survey to identify programs that have successfully addressed the needs of ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse students. This report presents a cross-sites…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Diversity (Student), Educational Improvement
