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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Nine Years After Prop 227
Nine Years after Proposition 227: What Can We Do To Save Bilingual Education? Written by Joe Navarro Saturday, 07 July 2007 I am a frustrated bilingual education teacher who is exhausted from the waves of assaults on bilingual education. Good educational theory and practices are officially and routinely undermined, while my school district chips away at the bilingual program, shaving it down to nearly nothing. Children are forced to transition into English-only learning without understanding English adequately; teachers are being mandated to speak less Spanish in the classrooms; students' skills will only be assessed in English; English-language learners are overrepresented in remedial education; and bilingual teachers are being solicited for ideas to undermine the program. Not understanding English is treated as though it is synonymous with lack of intelligence. Educators are pressured to abandon their beliefs in order to meet state mandates. I refuse to play along with this warped reasoning. Read more... http://freedomroad.org/content/view/451/1/lang,en/ ________________________________________________ Visit my website. Updated regularly. http://www.geocities.com/poetajoe/Joe_Navarro.html --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.
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