Children Are Our Future Bilingual education was created with the best of intentions. The purpose was to help Hispanic children become fluent in English, within American schools. The Bilingual Education Act failed to meet its goal. In the beginning, children were taught in their native languages, so they would not get behind in other subjects while they were learning English. To speak English fluently enough to join the other children in regular classrooms, educators estimated …showed first 75 words of 467 total…

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