In response to Adrian,

I agree with your opinion that parents will always do whatever it takes to get their children ahead of others. And I also believe that there is no guilty for those children to use the resources that their parents have gained through their hardworks. But I do agree some advantages are not gained because of simply hardwork but some hidden advantage because of many kinds of privilege. Acknowledgement is a great first step for sure, and both individuals and society need to work on it to make a balance.

Hi all!

My probe paper's topic is about language and culture in public school and I find an interesting book that is highly related in this topic.

The title of the book is Culture and the Lingual Classroom. This book contains results from studies in classroom ethnography.

This book can be found in the Education Library.

Hope this book can help with your other papers in some way.

Language is a very critical part of a society. In "The Making of Americans", Hirsch emphasizes that one dominant language is very important for a society, and the mastery of this dominant language is deeply beneficial for an individual in the society. I fully agree Hirsch's view also. This article provides an alternative way of teaching, which both native language of a student and English (the dominant language in society) is used in a classroom. I think it's a very analytical article, and it actually supports Hirsch's view in a different approach. In the end, the main purpose of the bilingual approach is to help students master both the academic knowledge and the language of English. The right thing that we should do is to pay attention to the usage, and maybe provide some guidelines for teachers to combine the two languages in a more beneficial way.