Bilingual & Monolingual Education

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"This paper examines the arguments for bilingual versus monolingual education in American schools in light of Thomas Sowell's argument in A Conflict of Visions that all perspectives of the world are derived from either a constrained or an unconstrained view of human beings. Sowell contends that those who think about the way things are or ought to be approach their thinking from a point of either believing that people operate from limited potential and selfish interests or base their actions on an innate desire to improve the world, even at personal expense. Applied to the question of whether students whose first language is not English should be taught in an environment that mixes their native language with instruction in English or should instead be taught only in English, Sowell's dichotomy suggests very different answers based on very..."

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