US: The bilingual education debate

[Francis Hult]

Los Angeles Times

 

The bilingual education debate

 

This edition of Blowback offers four responses to the package of three Op-Eds about bilingual education that The Times ran on July 11. The opinion pieces - "The Spanish road to English" by Bruce Fuller, "A skill, not a weakness" by Laurie Olsen and Shelly Spiegel-Coleman, and "Quality Counts" by Alice Callaghan - generated a lot of feedback from readers, and much of the "Letters to the editor" section on July 17 was devoted to it. The following are a sample of the submissions that were too long to print.

 

Full story:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-oew-0717-bilingual-blowbacks-20100717,0,5168032.story

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