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Bilingual Education programs

Imagine a scenario in which you are the superintendent at a major urban school district. You would like to
implement Bilingual Education programs in several elementary schools, in which language-majority (i.e.,
monolingual speakers of English only) and language-minority students (i.e., students whose home
language is another one than English) are combined. However, you are concerned about buy-in from
stakeholders such as parents and school personnel who might not be as well-informed about the benefits
of bilingualism.
In an essay of 1400-1600 words, explain the brain-based mechanisms at work, and then discuss both
cognitive and academic benefits of bilingualism. Please cite all sources appropriately, both in text and in
your bibliography, following APA style (7th edition).

The point of this work is less about memorization and more about doctorate-level synthesis. You will be
asked to advocate for a particular issue germane to both to the courses. This stance requires you to a)
know the course material well, b) synthesize course material, c) write with a clear and concise argument,
and d) back up this synthesized argument with correct APA 7 citations.

To prepare, think first of what your answer/argument will be. Then, write out an outline that answers all
parts of the question and keeps your argument in mind. Third, go back to your course materials and find
data sources to back up your argument. Fourth, draft a response to the question. Fifth, revise and ensure
that every word, sentence, and paragraph is in service to both a) your argument and b) all parts of the
question.

Please remember that less is often more. A well-synthesized argument will pass, while a "data dump" of
various sources neither linked nor synthesized will not.

Finally, make sure you review the rubric posted below before you start and after you have finished!
Fail Pass High pass

The essay contains a significant Most of the information in the essay All information in the
amount of information that does not addresses the questions (=items) answer addresses the
address the questions (=items) directly questions (=items) directly
directly

The essay is confusing and thus it is The essay is largely clearly written, The essay is exceptionally
hard to understand what the author is with only minor parts that might be well-written and as such
trying to convey somewhat harder to understand very clear and convincing

Not every paragraph has a clear Almost every paragraph in the Every paragraph in the essay
focus, with some paragraphs having essay has a clear focus and has a clear focus, and fully
no clear focus at all addresses the items correctly and correctly addresses the
items

The essay does not contain a The essay contains elements of a The essay contains an in-
discussion of brain-based discussion of brain-based depth, detailed discussion of
mechanisms underlying the benefits mechanisms underlying the benefits brain-based mechanisms
of bilingual education of bilingual education underlying the benefits of
bilingual education

The essay does not contain a The essay contains some discussion The essay contains a detailed
discussion of the cognitive benefits of the cognitive benefits of discussion of the cognitive
of bilingual education bilingual education, but it is not benefits of bilingual
detailed and/or supported by correct education, which is
research sources supported by correct
research sources

The essay does not contain a The essay contains some discussion The essay contains a detailed
discussion of the academic benefits of the academic benefits of discussion of the academic
of bilingual education bilingual education, but it is not benefits of bilingual
detailed and/or supported by correct education, which is
research sources supported by correct
research sources

Fewer than 5 research sources or At least 5-7 research sources or More than 8 research
researchers are correctly referenced researchers are correctly referenced sources or researchers
in the entire essay are correctly referenced

The essay contains frequent The essay contains some The essay contains no
grammatical errors, run-on sentences grammatical errors, run-on grammatical errors, run-on
and/or sentence fragments, and these sentences, and/or sentence sentences, or sentence
may interfere with the author’s fragments, but they are not frequent fragments
ability to convey meaning clearly and do not interfere with the
author’s ability to convey meaning
clearly

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