Should There Be Government-Funded Bilingual Education In The U.S.?

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how 42,000 native Spanish speakers did through 13 years of bilingual instruction. The professors discovered that students in six years of well-designed bilingual classes did much better on 11th grade standardized English tests, despite the fact that children are removed from such programs after three years in Massachusetts and Illinois (Hornblower). This is but one of the myriad studies that prove a fairly simple concept. If you can understand it, you can learn it.
One of the other problems arising with the implementation of B.E. is the lack of proper funding. Our schools are all underfunded, so oft times the only solution is to cut funding in an area. Unfortunately, not everyone recognizes the essential nature of bilingual instruction, and many times the worst cuts happen here, where it is thought that hardly anyone will notice. And many times no one cares, as Kathy Bardales writes in her article “Que Pasa with Bilingual Kids”:

I saw how unfairly minority urban classes are treated . . . the classrooms had encyclopedias from 1978, th...