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Bilingual-education research has helped to inform and to shape federal policy and funding as articulated in the Bilingual Education Act, first passed in 1968 as Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. During the Act's most recent reauthorization, the U.S. Department of Education and others proposed changing the law to fund more all-English language programs. They argued that the federal government was mandating a single approach, that there was no research evidence to support such a mandate, and that schools should be granted flexibility in designing programs to meet local needs. In fashioning this argument, proponents of change carefully selected the research literature they alluded to. That research was judged against artificially high and overly narrow criteria. Finally, they overinterpreted the research to suit their agenda. Congress was under intense political pressure to fund more all-English programs, and it did so. But a panel of experts contradicted the argument that there was no research to support the use of the native language for instruction. In the end, Congress kept the bulk of the monies devoted to bilingual programs.

Señala que algunos países han implementado programas de etnoeducación; en Perú, se presenta que la mayoría de hablantes indígenas se encuentra en la sierra. Presenta el caso de la diglosia, la lengua dominante y la experiencia con el Ministerio de Educación al gestionar un proyecto de capacitación de los hablantes bilingües en la región Sur del País. Se incluyen resultados de escuelas EBI y monolingües en español (ME) y datos acerca de la implementación de dicho programa en el departamento de Puno, Perú.