Title: "Emperor" Exposed as Right Wing Think Tank Strategy
Product review: Rossell and Baker's "study" was written for the conservative Pioneer Institute, as part of the anti-immigration, anti-intellectual effort to cut back on programs for at-risk students. Ignoring a raft of research at ERIC [and at the Center for Research on Education, Diversity,& Excellence], this report selects a limited range of studies to arrive at a "no significant difference" finding, which they rhetorically inflate and oversell in their title. Try CONDEMNED WITHOUT A TRIAL: Bogus Arguments Against Bilingual Education by Stephen D. Krashen (Heinemann, 1999)to see the anti-intellectualism of Rossell and Baker's tract. The fact that a conservative center published it shows the alliance to the ant-immigration hysteria noted in THE COLOR OF OUR FUTURE by Farai Chideya.
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