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[quote=Anonymous]I am not familiar with the NWEA test, but how old is your child? I have read that scores for students in immersion programs tend to start out lower in early elementary school because their language acquisition is divided between English and another language. As they get older (by high school), their scores catch up to the monolingual peers and often surpass them, but this is over a period of many years. I have heard of parents pulling their first grader out of immersion programs because they score lower on verbal standardized tests than children in English speaking schools. The benefits of an immersion model is for cognitive development in the long run, not short run.[/quote]
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