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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Educating New York's Bilingual Children: Constructing a Future from the Past
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Garcia, Ofelia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
This paper describes the ways in which New York City schools have responded to the multilingualism of its children in the last 40 years, and suggests changes needed in order to accommodate the greater linguistic heterogeneity of the city. In the predominantly Puerto Rican community of the 1960s and 1970s, traditional bilingual education programs…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs
A Speech Community Model of Bilingual Education: Educating Latino Newcomers in the USA
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Garcia, Ofelia; Bartlett, Lesley – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2007
With the rapid increase in immigration from Latin America to the USA, many US high schools are struggling with the thorny question of how best to educate newcomer immigrant youth with low levels of English proficiency. This paper examines what some might consider an anachronistic educational model--a segregated bilingual high school for Latino…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Models, Hispanic Americans, Second Language Learning