Bilingual Education 2

Bilingual Education in the northeastern United States and Canada serves many advantages and benefits for students of limited English skills. Since the early sixty’s, it continues to serve a great advantage to foreign students. This is important because it gives these students the opportunity to achieve the “American Dream”. American educators have argued that the aim of education should be to assimilate a foreign student into the American mainstream, become good American citizens, and …

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