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The city must use its $25.9 billion budget to teach immigrant students English and not keep them tethered to its long-term bilingual programs — and a life of disadvantage — writes our columnist. 
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Published by Ed Source, September 23, 2014 As accountability for student progress in California becomes more local, a new report focuses on how school districts can better educate their English learners – calling on administrators to embrace biliteracy, provide a rigorous curriculum and train all teachers in how to support language development in core courses, not just English language development classes.
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SB1174, passed by the California Legislature and now on the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown, undermines all the gains made during the past two decades in educating children who start school without a full knowledge of the English language.
Dual Language Education of New Mexico's insight:
The author, Rosalie P. Porter, is a long-time foe of bilingual education and proponents of English immersion.
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Published by Education Week The Education Week Spotlight on Foreign Language Instruction is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on:
Elementary Pupils Immersed in Foreign Language Delaware and Utah are funding foreign-language instruction at the elementary level in hopes of fostering achievement and economic growth. November 30, 2012 - Education Week Issue is billed as critical to help the United States compete in a global economy, and to better prepare today's young people for jobs after graduation. October 8, 2013 - Education Week Latino parents are increasingly sending their children to bilingual schools in an attempt to retain the family's Spanish-language fluency. Opponents of bilingual education say students in these programs don't perform proficiently in state tests. April 11, 2014 - Teaching Now Learning The Language More States Supporting Bilingualism With Special Seals on DiplomasBiliteracy "seals" that recognize high school graduates with fluency in two or more languages are catching on in more states. July 8, 2014 - Learning The Language Global Learning Bilingualism: Valuable for the Brain and SocietyJared Diamond's new book argues that bilingualism and multilingualism can improve our health and wealth as a nation. December 14, 2013 - Global Learning Global Learning A Global School for a Global AgeAmerica's first public school to convert to a charter is still running strong--see how. August 10, 2013 - Global Learning Global Learning The Unfortunate Monolingual AmericanAmerican disinterest in acquiring language skills to adapt to linguistic and cultural situations in which they find themselves is hurting an entire nation's likelihood of maintaining a predominant role in 21st century world matters. World interconnectedness coupled with the savvy of other world powerhouses has dictated that English is no longer the language needed to join the exclusive and elusive club of success and opportunity. July 3, 2014 - Global Learning Walt Gardner’s Reality Check Foreign Language PrioritiesThe real need is to produce students who can speak strategic languages such as Mandarin, Arabic, Korean and Farsi. October 21, 2013 - Walt Gardner’s Reality Check
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Published by the Stamford Advocate, September 12, 2014 School officials say meeting the district's obligations under a U.S. Department of Justice settlement is improving education for its non-English-speaking students. At the end of February, the Justice Department agreed to suspend its investigation into allegations that Stamford Public Schools was violating non-English-speaking students' civil rights by not providing an adequate English-language-learners program if the district agreed to implement improvements. The settlement requires more training, increasing the number of bilingual educators and providing updated materials and proper classroom instruction time, as well as collecting data. The district must report its progress periodically to the Justice Department until such time as the feds decide Stamford has proven ELL students are getting an equal opportunity for an education.
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Published by the Oregonian, August 31, 2014 Students learning in two languages master writing later than those learning just one. The Smarter Balanced test hinges on how well students write, as early as grade three. How will dual language programs manage to show their strengths on a test that seems stacked against them?
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Published by the Sacramento Bee, August 26, 2014 Californians would vote in 2016 to repeal the state’s ban on bilingual education under a bill the Legislature is sending to Gov. Jerry Brown. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/26/6657101/bills-asks-california-voters-to.html#storylink=cpy Educational research and public attitudes have changed since voters banned bilingual education in 1998, [Senator Ricardo] Lara [the bill's sponsor] said.
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Published by Ed Source, July 29, 2014 After nearly two decades, bilingual education in California could stage a resurgence if the state Senate approves a bill in August that would put the issue on the ballot in November 2016.
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Published by Education Week, July 14, 2010 (with corrections on March 23, 2012) Native American leaders pressed members of Congress and federal education officials this week to provide relief from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act that they see as obstacles to running the language-immersion schools they need to keep their languages from disappearing.
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Published by the Nevada News Bureau, August 29, 2012 A panel of lawmakers today recommended that Nevada’s public education funding formula be revised to take into account the higher cost of educating specific groups of students, including English-language learners and children in poverty.
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Published by the American Psychological Association, May 3, 2010 Immigrant Latinos display strong parenting practicesand raise socially agile children, but these early gains are likely to be eroded by mediocre schools and peer pressure in poor neighborhoods, according to findings published by the American Psychological Association. In a special section of the journal Developmental Psychology, a team of researchers examines how no-nonsense parenting practices – especially Latino traditions of strict discipline, respect for adults and strong family bonds – shape children’s social and cognitive growth and their assimilation into mainstream culture.
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Published by the Modesto Bee, March 17, 2012 (California) The Modesto City Schools District will grapple Monday with the question of whether to require a bilingual credential for teachers in the Dual Language Program, but the underlying issue is bumping rights.
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Broadcast by NY1 News, September 24, 2014 As part of our Tale of Two Cities special series, we follow up with a Brooklyn College graduate we profiled in May who overcame many odds to get her diploma. As NY1's Jeanine Ramirez fond out, her success has continued. "I can relate to them because I grew up in a low-income community and I also had a language barrier. Therefore, I want to be that person to, kind of, inspire them and empower them and guide them," Lopez says. Lopez overcame more than just economic and language barriers to get here. She arrived in New York from Mexico at two years old, obtained her citizenship, became pregnant as a teenager and transferred to an alternative high school in Red Hook which gives students who drop out a second chance.
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Published by CNN, March 4, 2014 Linguistic professor chimes in on why California's senator pushing to repeal the bilingual education ban is long overdue. Via CALISPANISH
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Published by the Deseret News, September 17, 2014 Students learning English as a second language in Utah schools are progressing and maintaining proficiency, but they're having trouble using English in actual subjects.
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Published by Education Week, September 11, 2014 The common-core standards are dramatically reshaping teaching and learning, but some of the biggest changes are arguably happening for English-language learners and their teachers. That's because English-learners, no matter their level of proficiency, are expected to engage with demanding content and demonstrate more sophisticated skills with language even when their English is still developing. Those higher expectations, ELL experts say, mean every educator working with English-learners must take responsibility for developing their language.
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Published by the Orlando Sentinel, September 5, 2014 As promised, Gov. Rick Scott today demanded that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan "reverse course" and allow Florida to include students learning English in its school grading system under its own, long-standing rules. Florida wants those students fully counted in school grade calculations only after they have been in Florida schools for at least two years. Their federal counterparts want them counted after a year.
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Paid Press Release, Aug 28, 2014 Lara's bill would remove the sheltered English immersion requirement, opening the doors to dual-language immersion programs and bilingual education programs throughout the state.
Dual Language Education of New Mexico's insight:
My question to Mauro Mujica: What's the beef? Dual language education is far superior to English immersion.
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Published by Business Insider India, August 19, 2014 It has long been held that a bilingual brain is more developed. The grey matter in the brain controls sensory perception that includes language skills, memory, emotions, speech, and most importantly decision-making and self-control. These are better developed in bilingual individuals who have been exposed to a second language from early childhood.
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Published by the Milwaukee Journal Sintinel, June 18 2014 Two Milwaukee School Board members are pushing for more two-language schools in the city, saying that one day all students should be able to graduate fluent in English plus another language.
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Broadcast on KSL.Com, March 6, 2012 Expansion plans for Utah's dual-immersion language program are in danger. A lack of funding could keep new schools and new languages from coming in the fall.
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Published by the Twin Cities Daily Planet, May 14, 2012 Nou Her is a pre-kindergarten teacher in the first Hmong immersion program in the nation, located at St. Paul’s Jackson Elementary school. She’s also a translator. During the summer, on weekends, on weeknights and during prep hours, she translates children’s books, district curriculum, wall hangings and songs. “From big books to small books to rhyming to alliteration,” she said. It’s what’s required for a program that teaches core curriculum in a language for which there exist virtually no commercial curriculum materials. In Jackson’s Pre-K to fourth grade immersion program, students spend at least half their time learning in Hmong. Pre-K to first graders speak Hmong all day, except for 50-minute specialist periods. English instruction is gradually added between second and fourth grades. The school also houses traditional English-only classrooms.
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Published by the Huffington Post, December 6, 2013 Mounting evidence suggests that learning a second language can be the key to a student's success, supporting everything form increased cognitive function to higher rates of success in school and in the careers that come afterward. It's no wonder that parents and schools across the globe are pushing for increased language education. But not all countries are increasing language learning at the same rate, and they aren't all pushing for the same languages to be taught. In fact, second language acquisition varies widely by country. Check out the infographic below, presented in partnership with Middlebury Interactive Languages, showing how the U.S. stacks up.
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Published by the New York Times, December 29, 2010 That headline says: First learn Spanish. Then study Chinese.
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For "hard," positive news on what NYC is doing, see our Scoop Its under Dual Language Education in the U.S.