A recent comprehensive review of studies evaluating the effectiveness of bilingual education by Baker and de Kanter (1983) of the U.S. Department of Education concluded: Although there are few American examples of structured immersion, these programs seem to generally succeed quite well in both the second language and subject areas (p. 11). The authors cited several Canadian studies demonstrating that language minority students who received a structured im-
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