Bilingual Education Is Beneficial To Students Abilities To Assimilate In The Mainstream Culture

Part I of Essay
English only--sink or swim? Yeah right! Instead of English Only Advocates worrying about bilingual education cost in our school system, why not take advantage of the skills our ethnic minorities possess to move our economy forward? They are obviously not thinking clearly, ....

Part II of Essay
.... heritage, contributions to the American economy, and diversity. The development of a students language and preservation of their culture is essential for the upward mobility of today’s youth. There always have been some immigrants who viewed themselves explicitly as the preserver and savior of their languages and heritages. Since the late 1800s, ethnic minorities in America have been consistently characterized as culturally inferior. Their language right has consistently been the subject of political review. Politicians do not have the righ ....