Report on Reports
7. Investing in Human Potential... 1993 - AAAS
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INVESTING IN HUMAN POTENTIAL...1993 |
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…careful reading of recent reports finds that the special needs of a growing population of students for whom English is a second language are not addressed. Perhaps the absence of discussion of this issue is just an oversight or that these proposals are broad in scope and cannot include detailed attention to ‘special interest’ groups. Whatever the reasons, this situation must be remedied if the goal of reform is to improve science instruction for all students and to increase minority participation in the sciences.
The role of language in the institutional process– and related issues such as culture and learning styles– must be taken into consideration with an increasingly multilingual and multicultural student population. And ways to address such matters in the sciences do not have to be invented de novo. In others words, considerable information is already available which deals with appropriate science instruction for college students who are still learning English; however, it is not found in places where college science faculty or science education ‘reformers’ normally look.
– Teaching Science to
Language Minority Students. Judith W. Rosenthal, 1996.
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To academic institutions and departments
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