Collier and Rodriguez continued…
Two-Way Enrichment Education:
• Best attempt yet at providing equality of educational opportunity for LEP students through an educational process that validates and develops both languages.
• Two-way models may serve as a vehicle for positively impacting educational and social change and potentially narrow the achievement gap between non-LEP and LEP students.
Which model seems the most effective???
I am going with the Two-Way Enrichment Education model! Please view the link to another of Collier’s articles: http://njrp.tamu.edu/2004/PDFs/Collier.pdf. The Two-Way Enrichment Education model wins! Thus, in order to usurp the paradigm, the most competent bicultural language program must be utilized. Educated in Switzerland, I can confidently assert that bicultural education in Europe is education. Being a polyglot is revered, not frowned upon. We live in a nation of linguists (doesn’t that term sound better than English Language Learners?), so how have our policymakers missed the boat? Why is there “the incongruity—the clash of two worlds” (Rodriguez, 35)? Why is there such a disconnect between the cultures represented in the schools and our educational system? The maintenance of the status quo and the proliferation of power might be the answer.
Hi Morgan,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your extra article by Collier." But, after almost two decades of program evaluation research that we have conducted in 23 large and small school districts from 15 different states, representing all regions of the U.S. in urban, suburban, and rural contexts, we continue to be astonished at the power of this school reform model>'
Why can't the higher ups who are doing this major reform right now look at research such as Collier's or some of the other author's, we have read in class whose research is much more prevalent to "school reform?"
Hi Morgan, Educated in Switzerland-you must tell us more about that! In answer to Ms. Lee's question-I do believe the higher ups do look at the research conducted by the groups(corporations) who have won the bidding to be the next text book publisher, or standardized test maker, or teacher evaluation proponent, or charter school enthusiasts who will lead our educational system into privatization where teachers will have little control over what they can teach in their classroom, be held accountable for that teaching, and lose or keep their jobs at the mercy (oxymoron)of the power cultures that be. (I think I'm channeling Kohn.) I'll stop now. See you in class.
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