Topic
Bilingual education is a money guzzling drain on the US economy, and serves no real function. Using the most current statistics available determine the successfulness of bilingual education in American's public school system to address the above claim. Causal argument required.
Data
- National Center for Education Statistics - Data ToolsThe NCES collects data on the cost of bilingual education and the enrollment of English language learners. There are many different data tools available on the website. You may want to use the search tool to look for "bilingual education" among the many different datasets.
- Office of English Language AcquisitionThis government organization has created many different reports on bilingual education. Some are in tables and some are in graphs. Although you cannot use graphs for this assignment, look below the visuals for the listed source of the data. Many times that links directly to the dataset that you can use.
- Texas Education AgencyThese snapshot datasets allow you to see spending on bilingual education by district size, community, property wealth and more.
Articles
- ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowContains a wide range of journal articles on all aspects of education.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowA database of articles from education, economics, culture issues, and more.
