After the Revolution of 1917, education in native languages was promoted.
Bilingual education initiatives, in which students begin instruction in native languages and gradually transition to instruction in Khmer, began in Ratanakiri in 2002 and appear to have been successful.
In bilingual education, they learn academic subjects in native languages and study English in separate classes.
In the UK, multiculturalism emphasized the importance of curricula that take sufficient account of cultural diversity and the importance of education in the native language and culture of immigrants.
This fantasy recalls an earlier moment in British imperial history when the colonial government in India decided in 1835 that education, conducted up to that point in native languages, would henceforth happen in English only.
In 2001, he was posted to Sivas, a deeply conservative city, where he wrote a press release stating that all people in Turkey had a right to education in their native languages.
Mr. Figueroa said he worried that an incremental move toward immersion would someday lead to the end of any education in students' native languages.
Multicultural policy as shaped in the Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s - state subsidised self-organisation of migrant groups, education in migrants' native languages, facilitating migrant broadcasting and political consultation facilities for migrant communities - is difficult to organise and to finance in the current age of migration.
These students, proponents of bilingual education say, are just the sort who need special instruction in their native language.
Connecticut law recognizes the value of early second language instruction in a native language.
