[Edling] US: The Economic Imperative of Bilingual Education

[Francis Hult]

The Atlantic



The Economic Imperative of Bilingual Education



In a break with tradition, more schools are adopting language-immersion programs, in which English and another language are integrated into the curriculum and instruction. The Center for Applied Linguistics, a D.C.-based nonprofit, found an exponential growth in foreign-language immersion in a comprehensive survey of public schools and some private schools. Over a 40-year span language-immersion schools grew steadily, with the largest increase in the decade that started in 2001. Spanish remains the most popular for immersion programs at 45 percent, followed by French (22 percent) and Mandarin (13 percent), with a wide array of languages rounding out the list of 22 selections—from Hawaiian and Cantonese to Japanese and Arabic.



Full story:
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/11/bilingual-education-movement-mainstream/414912/
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