Bilingual Education

Bilingual education is one of our country's controversial issues, as non-native English speakers comprise a large portion of the failure group in the nation's educational system. Essentially, any new student to the US has two main goals: to master content and learn the English language. Often such students, who may be very skilled and talented in their mother tongue, experience difficulties due to their language deficiency. Thus, a few different types of bilingual education programs have been designed to aid these students in order for them to overcome their difficulties and have an equal opportunity to excel as their peers do.…