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How can being bilingual be an asset for white students and a deficit for immigrants?

The Hechinger Report

David Nieto, executive director of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education. Before the English-only instruction bill’s passage in 2002, the most common way schools served students learning English was through a program called transitional bilingual education.