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Fighting exclusion: Bilingual ed students outperform peers after 6th grade
By Ramon Bracamontes
October 29, 2010

Students in bilingual education outperform their peers in English-only programs after the sixth grade, a San Jose State University professor said Thursday in El Paso.

The professor, Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, told educators at the Texas Association for Bilingual Education Conference that she has studied bilingual programs in 10 states during the past 20 years. The conclusion of her studies was always the same.

"The bilingual students will outperform the other students in English and in math," she said. "There is a lot of high-quality research that backs that up."

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