Dr. Rosalie Porter on the changes made by the Massachusetts legislature in bilingual education policy:
[H]er chief concerns with the Legislature's amendments are that they open the door to evading the law. She described the problems as an exemption allowing some districts to maintain "two-way" bilingual education classes taught half the day in Spanish and the other half in English, and another exemption allowing some kindergarten students to be taught part of the time in Spanish.
"Two-way" bilingual education does a great job of teaching English-speaking kids Spanish. It is demonstrably far less effective at teaching Spanish-speaking kids English.
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