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Article: Study links bilingual education to limited earnings potential.(Nation)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 5, 1998
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Bilingual education handicaps Hispanic children, severely limiting their earnings potential when they enter the job market, a new national study shows.
On average, first-generation Hispanic students who went through bilingual education programs over the past two decades are now earning about 50 percent less than their peers who received an English-only education.
The study, conducted by University of Maryland labor economist Mark Hugh Lopez and Marie T. Mora, an economics professor at New Mexico State University, is the first to link participation in a bilingual education program with later labor market opportunities.
"Between $8 billion ...