The Effects of Transitional Bilingual Education On...

The Effects of Transitional Bilingual Education On Elementary Level Minority Students Bilingual Education has been an increasingly controversial subject throughout education systems in America. The growing numbers of bilingual students in the country have provided much debate regarding the most effective way of instructing these students in traditional American schools. Perhaps one of the newest and fastest growing methods throughout the country has become transitional bilingual education, a program which integrates the English language into these classroom by adding more English instruction throughout the course of the lesson. It has proved to be both beneficial to the students engaged into these programs as well as the teachers who†¦show more content†¦These laws were designed to Americanize these groups and some states even went so far as to ban the instruction of foreign languages in the early grades. This was declared unconstitutional by congress in 1923. By that point, it was clear that bilingual education had failed considerably, Limited-English Profic ient (LEP) students began to fall behind in their studies and drop out rates rose as high as fifty percent. Perhaps the first stepping stone for minority speakers was the case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Although this case focused primarily on the rights of African-Americans and their equal education rights, it declared that separate but equal was indeed unconstitutional and that students receiving low levels of education were to be helped. Following the Brown decision, Title VI of the 14th amendment declared that discrimination based on race, color, or national origin was to be prohibited and re-established basic rights as defined by the constitution. This led to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 which generally established equal educational opportunites for underprivileged children based on their economic and social different. 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