Immersion or Bilingual Education: Is One Superior? The Problem Nationwide, about 3.5 million public school students do not know English well enough to succeed in a regular classroom. In the early twentieth century, such children would have been expected to learn English without much special help, sinking or swimming on their own. Of course, many millions of children did learn this way, but many others failed, falling further behind each year or dropping out of school …showed first 75 words of 1944 total…

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