Monthly Archives: January 2002

As only might be expected, the forward motion of our “English” initiative in Massachusetts—and the 100,000 signatures that our supporters so quickly gathered—has awoken that state’s political establishment from its thirty-year near slumber on the subject of bilingual education. But … Continue reading →

A few years ago, when I first began preparing our successful “English for the Children” initiative in California, my conservative friends darkly warned me that America’s teachers’ unions were the powerful hidden force behind our massive system of Spanish-almost-only “bilingual … Continue reading →

As Karl Marx so aptly observed, history often occurs twice, first as tragedy, then later as farce. Certainly the “English” proposals of the unelected leader of Massachusetts’ near-extinct Republican Party seem to follow this historical script.

Here’s our summary of the dramatic California test score numbers for 2nd graders, including graphs, based on the official data released on the State Department of Education website. The only numbers we needed to calculate were the non-bilingual LEP numbers, … Continue reading →