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Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?

Posted February 20th, 2006 by Lisa Broniszewski in Education

From the NBER, a working paper. Between 1898 and 1948, English was the language of instruction for most post-primary grades in Puerto Rican public schools. Since 1949, the language of instruction in all grades has been Spanish.

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