<div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <a href="mailto:edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu">edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu</a><br><br><br>Education Week<br><br><br><br>Advocates of Bilingual Education Eager to Embrace Obama as Ally<br>
<br><br><br>Supporters of bilingual education are hoping that the election of Barack Obama as president will lead to a thaw in attitudes toward what they consider a proven educational method that has been ignored-or worse-by the Bush administration.<br>
<br><br><br>Advocates are encouraged by the endorsement of bilingual education by President-elect Obama in the recent campaign, and see the pending reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act as a vehicle to change federal testing and other policies they view as hostile to dual-language instruction.<br>
<br><br><br>Full story:<br><br><a href="http://www.edweek.org/login.html?source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edweek.org%2Few%2Farticles%2F2008%2F11%2F19%2F13bilingual.h28.html&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edweek.org%2Few%2Farticles%2F2008%2F11%2F19%2F13bilingual.h28.html&levelId=2100&baddebt=false" target="_blank">http://www.edweek.org/login.html?source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edweek.org%2Few%2Farticles%2F2008%2F11%2F19%2F13bilingual.h28.html&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edweek.org%2Few%2Farticles%2F2008%2F11%2F19%2F13bilingual.h28.html&levelId=2100&baddebt=false</a><br>
<br><br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br>Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br>Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------<br>