Bilingual_Education

Bilingual Education The United States is one the world’s most ethnically diverse nations, the U.S. attracts immigrants from several countries. One of the most frequent asked questions are, how do we accommodate immigrants and whether to try to fully blend them into the U.S. culture ' There is a huge controversy over the Bilingual Education issue. After many years of bilingual education in the United States, one thing is certain that it doesn’t work and it’s failing America’s immigrants but many might disagree with this statement and may think that Bilingual Education is a successful program. Bilingual education is a dual-language program designed to provide equal education opportunities to students of limited English proficiency (Gallegos 99). There has been lots of attention put towards Bilingual Education because of the large number of non-English speaking immigrants in America. The first Bilingual Education act was passed in 1968, which allowed students to learn material in school partly in their own language and the rest in English. By 1973, the federal budget for bilingual education had grown to 45 million dollars and supported programs in twenty-six different languages(Lang 61). Language minority in the United States are often called limited English proficient (LEP) students. Estimates of LEP students range from 2.5 million to 4.6 million, which equals up to 7 to 10 bilingual, education, language, students, english, lep, school, programs, new, classes, teaching, learn, lang, studies, schools, program, porter, million, issues, immigrants, been, act, taught, student, states, speaking, speak, something, rest, percent, people, out, improve, immersion, help, government