bilingual education

noun

1. schooling in which those not fluent in the standard or national language are taught in their own language.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bilingual education¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

An office that administers bilingual education programs?

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Released on August 14, 2000, the first episode of “Dora the Explorer” moved forward in spite of an English-only movement bubbling up in California politics a few years prior; Proposition 227 passed in 1998 by a large margin, effectively curtailing bilingual education in the state.

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Californians passed propositions in the 1990s that sought to make life miserable for undocumented immigrants, ended government-sponsored affirmative action and banned bilingual education.

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In the late 1970s she was seconded to a project that looked into the feasibility of bilingual education provision for the islands.

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She also oversaw the development of bilingual education — a complicated effort that never bore fruit as hoped.

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