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The debate about bilingual education in America

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Barrow-Murray, Barbara Moore, Melvin Atwood, David Yang, Eileen

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In this clip Ray Almeida talks about why there is resistance to bilingual education in America. Overall the program examines bilingual education in Boston. Host Melvin Moore speaks with Raffael De Gruttala (Director of Bilingual Education in Boston), Stephanie Fan (Teacher in Charge at the Bilingual Education Department), David Cortiella (of El Comite De Padres), and Ray Almeida (community advocate for bilingual and multicultural education and proponent of Cape Verdian education in Massachusetts) about the nature of transitional bilingual education, what a bilingual education consists of, which children have a right to be served by the city, the different responsibilities of the Boston School Committee and the Bilingual Education Department, claims that bilingual education is a threat to desegregation, the extent to which problems related to bilingual education have been addressed in the community, and the response of the Bilingual Department and the School Committee to community pressure and parental involvement. Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray. Directed by David Atwood.
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Smith, KathyMahard, FranStewart, AubreyHorne, DannyWareham, SkipWilson, BobClark, MarvinClarke, BrianMackles, GeneRivera, GeorgeMerhar, MilanHill, RebeccaRosenthal, IrisNorton, ChasLaBillois, AnnLewis, WebsterBuccheri, RonCronin, MaryJohnson, BillSullivan, John LDemers, LeoBordett, BruceSt. Onge, David
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Keywords

  1. Almeida, Ray
  2. Bilingual Education Department
  3. Boston
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Cortiella, David
  6. De Gruttala, Raffael
  7. Education, Bilingual
  8. El Comite De Padres
  9. Fan, Stephanie
  10. Massachusetts
  11. Public Schools
  12. Segregation

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