ETH125 Week 7 Checkpoint 1

The first article that I have found goes into detail of the time lines of when and how we started to actually mandate how bilingualism is taught in the public school districts. It is a very long and drawn out article that states what bilingualism is about and how it benefits the students that use it. The article also describes what the author knows about bilingualism and how statistics show that Latino scores are improved by taking these classes.

http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/pop_billing.html

The next article that I have found is one that also is for bilingualism in public school. It states the statistics of how and why children improve scores and grades form taking another language in college, not high school. It says that when children take these classes in high school, they do not get enough of it to learn as much as they could.

http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/riehl/article_41791d70-d500-5746-90a5-9f39e9953be9.html

This article is against bilingualism in politics because it is said that it is dangerous because maybe people will forget where they are form if they speak another language. I do not think this is the case but Newt Gingrich does. It is also said that English is what holds us all together and that if we stray to another language it would not be beneficial to us as Americans, again I do not agree.

http://articles.latimes.com/1995-10-31/news/mn-63269_1_official-language

This article talks about our President Barack Obama and how bilingualism played a huge role in how he was elected, because he supports bilingualism in politics. The article also states that many Americans look at people who are bilingual as different, and that does not usually win an election when you are running for