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Overcoming the Gentrification of Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs

Sun, April 14, 3:05 to 4:35pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Salon K

Session Type: Symposium

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Research about the ‘gentrification’ of dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs (Valdez, Freire, and Delavan, 2016) has exploded in recent years, as U.S. bilingual education scholars and activists have grown increasingly alarmed by the ways that multilingual learners have been marginalized in DLBE program creation, enrollment, and implementation (Cervantes-Soon et al., 2017; Delavan, Freire, & Menken, 2021; Palmer et al., 2019). The purpose of this symposium is to share research about DLBE gentrification in diverse educational contexts across the U.S. with different student populations, and to offer practical recommendations to a field that is eagerly seeking solutions. Each paper documents different aspects of the phenomenon and includes practical recommendations with concrete, doable action steps.

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