How Can We Best Serve LEP Students? A Reply to Nicholas Meier and Stephen Krashen.

Baker, Keith

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How Can We Best Serve LEP Students? A Reply to Nicholas Meier and Stephen Krashen.

Baker, Keith

Phi Delta Kappan, v80 n9 p707-10 May 1999

Meier and Krashen, both employed in California's education system, do an injustice to students in rehashing an already settled battle. Fed up with two decades of failure, California voters replaced bilingual education with structured English immersion. Meier and Krashen offer no suggestions for coping with Proposition 227. (27 references) (MLH)

Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Immersion Programs, Language Proficiency, Misconceptions, Research Problems, Second Language Instruction, State Legislation

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Proposition 227 (California 1998)

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