Some New York Times Articles on "Immersion" and other kinds of ``Bilingual" Education.

Note that the term 'immersion' seems to have been coopted by various people, and are using it with different meanings than the original meaning, which was (primarily), majority-language children being immersed in another language program, not minority-language children. One of these writers below even calls for immersion + rigorous training in a child's mother tongue (which is always a part of good immersion programs anyway!)
• Article by By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY entitled "Immersion Promoted as Alternative to Bilingual Instruction" and

• Article by John Tierney, called "The secret to becoming bilingual."
  (Note that this article claims that the children `become' bilingual with no help from the school system!)

• Letter to the editor by Otmar Schreiber on his reactions to all this, having grown up bilingual.

• Editorial in NYTimes October 30, 2000

• Article on `Dual-Medium' schools in New York.

• Latest (June 25, 2003) article in which Mayor Bloomberg sidesteps the immersion issue and opts for more bilingual instruction.