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<p>Education Week</p>
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<p>San Francisco's Bilingual Programs as Effective as English Only, Study Finds</p>
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<p>By the time they reach 5th grade, English-language learners in San Francisco's public schools were equally proficient in English regardless of whether they had been in a bilingual program or had received all their instruction in English, a recent study from
Stanford University researchers has found.</p>
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/03/san_francisco.html">http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/03/san_francisco.html</a></p>
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