US: Advocates of Bilingual Education Eager to Embrace Obama as Ally

[Francis Hult]

Education Week

 

Advocates of Bilingual Education Eager to Embrace Obama as Ally

 

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. 

 

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. 

 

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