Rising up against bilingual education.(Commentary)(Editorials)

Anyone who has ever become truly proficient in a second language knows quite well that - apart from studying the rules of grammar and syntax - the surest way to learn is through exposure, the more intense the better. And anyone who knows children knows that the learning of language comes easier before the brain gets too set in its linguistic ways.

Which leads one to wonder just what the educators and legislators who insist on forcing non-native English speaking children to study in their native language really have in mind. It also leads to the conclusion that a new ...

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