Bilingual Education Quiz

	Bilingual Education Quiz

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1. In bilingual education programs, students are taught in their native language and spend as little as 30 minutes a day learning English.	True False
2. According to a U.S. Supreme Court decision, schools are required to offer native-language-based bilingual education to students with limited English proficiency.	True False
3. What percentage of Limited English Proficiency students in the United States are in California?	10% 25% 33% 50%
4. English-speaking students are sometimes put into bilingual education classes because they have a Hispanic surname.	True False
5. A 1997 National Research Council study determined that native-language-based bilingual education offers students many long-term advantages.	True False
6. A study published in September 1997 by proponents of bilingual education claims that it takes how many years for students with limited English proficiency to learn English?	1-3 4-6 7-9 10+
7. In 1995 only about 5% of California's students in bilingual education programs had learned enough English to transfer into regular classes.	True False
8. In the Oakland (California) School District, English-speaking African-American students have been placed in Cantonese-speaking bilingual education classes to round out the class size.	True False
9. A review of scientifically valid studies on the effectiveness of bilingual education found that 71% of the studies showed bilingual education to be no better than or worse than "submersion" (no special program at all.)	True False
10. If parents decide they do not want bilingual education for their children, they can easily have them transferred into English-speaking classrooms.	True False

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