Segment #1: 'CALIFORNIA DEBATES BILINGUAL EDUCATION' Latino USA's Mandalit del Barco reports on the debate in California regarding a state ballot initiative that would dismantle bilingual education in the public schools in favor of an untested program called 'English for the Children.' (8:07) // Segment #2: 'GUILLERMO GOMEZ PENA POEM ON BILINGUAL EDUCATION' Commentator and writer Guillermo Gomez Pena shares a poem to demonstrate that many people in the U.S. probably know more Spanish than they previously believed. (1:45) // Segment #3: 'BLANDINA CARDENAS RAMIREZ TWO-WAY' Latino USA's Maria Martin speaks with educator Dr. Blandina Cardenas Ramirez, Chair of the Board of the Educational Testing Service. This two-way concludes Latino USAs special series highlighting Latinas as part of our coverage of Women's History Month. (5:56) // Segment #4: 'COMMENTARY: RUBEN MARTINEZ ON ENGLISH-ONLY' Commentator Ruben Martinez, who lives and works in Mexico City, believes that the continent has already become irreversibly bilingual (2:22).
Creator/Contributor:
Hinojosa, Maria, 1961- (host), Cárdenas Ramírez, Blandina 1944- (interviewee), Gómez-Peña, Guillermo (commentator), Martin, M. E. (María Emilia) (reporter), Martinez, Ruben (commentator), del Barco, Mandalit (reporter), Alvarez, David (reporter), Kahn, Carrie (reporter), Herrera-Lasso, Luis (interviewee), Anger, Scott (reporter), Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana (interviewee), Coates, Peter (interviewee), Goldman, Wendy (reporter), Muñoz, Cecilia (interviewee), Garcia, Michelle (interviewee), Foss, Roberto (interviewee), Bravo, Marta (interviewee), Baca, Kathleen (interviewee), Petracca, Mark P. (commentator), Gold, Norman (interviewee), and Palacio, Emily (interviewee)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1998-4-5
Owning Repository:
Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin