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Title: Bilingual Education in Massachusetts: The Emperor Has No Clothes (Pioneer Paper, No 10) by Christine H. Rossell, Keith Baker ISBN: 0-929930-14-2 Publisher: Pioneer Inst for Public Pub. Date: May, 1996 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $15.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Garbage!
Comment: Unfounded, slanted, typical conservative trash.

Only for the anti-immigrant crowd.

Rating: 1
Summary: "Emperor" Exposed as Right Wing Think Tank Strategy
Comment: Rossell and Baker's "study" was written for the conservative Pioneer Institute, as part of the anti-immigration, anti-intellectual effort to cut back on programs for at-risk students. Ignoring a raft of research at ERIC [and at the Center for Research on Education, Diversity,& Excellence], this report selects a limited range of studies to arrive at a "no significant difference" finding, which they rhetorically inflate and oversell in their title. Try CONDEMNED WITHOUT A TRIAL: Bogus Arguments Against Bilingual Education by Stephen D. Krashen (Heinemann, 1999)to see the anti-intellectualism of Rossell and Baker's tract. The fact that a conservative center published it shows the alliance to the ant-immigration hysteria noted in THE COLOR OF OUR FUTURE by Farai Chideya.

Rating: 5
Summary: Examination of 25 year old bilingual ed. law and effects
Comment: Author examines TBE as applied in Massachusetts
and finds that, 25 years after the law was passed,
there is still no proof that this approach works
better than any other approach -- including
intensive English instruction. Author discovers that nearly all students except
Spanish language students receive instruction
almost exclusively in English.