Los Angeles Times – Teresa Watanabe
“Yet a vast body of research indicates that Proposition 227’s core assertion — that English immersion is more successful than bilingual education — is simply wrong, according to many education experts. In a 2008 review of more than 500 studies on English-language learners, Stanford University education professor Claude Goldenberg wrote that one major consistent finding was that learning to read in a child’s first language boosts reading achievement in the second language.”(more)