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ERIC Number: EJ374557
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Transitional Bilingual Education and the Socialization of Immigrants.
Spener, David
Harvard Educational Review, v58 n2 p133-53 May 1988
U.S. educational policies reflect an economic need to socialize immigrants and minority group members to fill undesirable, low-status jobs. Transitional bilingual education programs prevent immigrant children from attaining academic fluency in either their own language or English. (JOW)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Economic Factors, Educational Policy, Immigrants, Language Proficiency, Low Income Groups, Minority Groups, Socialization, Transitional Programs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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