Friday, May 03, 2002
News Flash: English Immersion Works Best
"Students in immersion programs were nearly three times as likely to score in the advanced or early advanced categories as students in bilingual programs," the Los Angeles Times reported on May 1st. Ron Unz, the author of California's 1998 bilingual education reform, had this to say about the test results via an e-mail letter:
Consider that we have now discovered---all our educational expectations to the contrary---that children taught English by being taught in English will learn English much faster than children taught English by being taught in Spanish, or even Swahili. I am currently awaiting a call from the Nobel Prize Selection Committee of the Swedish Academy regarding this scientific breakthrough.
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