Bilingual Education in Miami

Title: Bilingual Education in Miami
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics | Words: 1136 | Pages: 4.8 (approximately 235 words/page)

Bilingual Education in Miami

While California debates whether to stop teaching school children in two languages, the school system in Miami, Florida is expanding bilingual education. This city at the crossroads of the Americas is expanding bilingual education under the argument that students will need to speak, read and write in English and Spanish when they reach the business world. The decision to do this almost seems natural for a metropolis where the top-rated television stations broadcast in Spanish, …showed first 75 words of 1136 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1136 total…in Spanish. In a survey done by the University of Miami it was found that 95% of businesses agreed on the importance of a bilingual work force. They also found that people who know both English and Spanish earned an average of 00.00 more a year than those who only know English. Maybe it will take time for people in other states like California and Texas to realize the importance of a bilingual education for our children.

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