Purpose
The National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) has been established since 1975 as a non-profit membership organization that works to ensure that language-minority students have equal opportunities to learn English and succeed academically. NABE’s organization priorities are improving instructional practices for linguistically and culturally diverse children; providing bilingual educators with more high-quality professional development opportunities; securing adequate funding for the programs serving limited-English-proficient students; and keeping the rights of language-minority Americans clearly in focus as states and