Excellent story on the immersion model of bilingual education, where ALL students learn both Spanish and English continuously for many years, until they are fluent in both languages. Courses are taught in both languages. What a refreshing idea! The politics of multilingual education are also discussed - there are political forces at work to minimize bilingual education requirements, with the result that Spanish speakers are exited into English-speaking academic classes before they ... More »

The article covers many angles of the issue, rather than giving it a cursory treatment.

It is an informative and seemingly thorough article which clearly presents a well argued case for a particular model of bi-lingual education. It has drawn on a fair amount of statistics, one can only hope that they were used properly, and use several rather disparate sources for interviews.