... willing to provide to ensure the "American Dream" to its entire people? Bilingual education has been a political debate for years and as the United States continues to be bombarded with non-English speaking children, the fire continues to grow hotter. Thus, more attention is being paid to the conflicts of the educational experience of the increasingly diverse student population. "Much of the debate on bilingual education is politically motivated, more suitable for talk shows than for improving schools," Timothy Reagan quotes in his article, "Linguistic Human Rights: A New Perspective on Bilingual Education." Many politicians have offered only broad and superficial explanations to the public when approached with this subject. It seems that much of the debate is centered around ideology and issues of social class rather than the actual issue of education. Not much besides the gradual depletion of state funding for bilingual education programs has been accomplished at this ...

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