Why is bilingual education bad?

Research in Australia among Aboriginal groups shows that bilingual education programs have higher school attendance and better outcomes on standardized tests. The same is true for the elite bilingual schools at the other end of the socio-economic spectrum. Bilingual education benefits all, not just the rich. read more

The appropriate answer depends on which bilingual education program model you are asking about. TBI is the model that has the main goal of stripping the students of their native language to replace with the mainstream lanaguage (in America that is English). read more

The Bilingual Education Act was a modestly funded ($7.5 million for the first year) amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, intended to help poor Mexican-American children learn English. read more