Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools

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Summary: puts a human face on the issue of immigrant education
Review: Unsure of how you feel about bilingual education? Even more likely, don't really understand what bilingual education is? Read this book. Laurie Olsen helps us put a human face on what has become a political question. Her clear and well-written portrait of one school puts the issue of language, emotional and sensitive as it can be, in concrete terms of pragmatic educational effectiveness: You can't learn what you don't understand. For anyone who cares about this important issue, or even feels as though they should.