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Published by the New York Times, March 11, 2016
Yet another benefit to speaking multiple languages. 
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Published by New American Media, December 17, 2015 "a May 2015 article from the Atlantic finds – from 2008 and 2013 statistics -- a significant drop of foreign second language usage from K-12 onwards. While 93% of high schools provided these classes, only 7% of college students continued language studies. Only 1% of American adults today, who studied languages in school, are proficient bilinguals.
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Published by NBC News, October 14, 2015 Children of immigrants who can speak, read and write in both English and the language spoken at home have an advantage in the labor market, a new report released Tuesday finds. The report by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA and the Educational Testing Service, a nonprofit testing organization, shows that individuals with immigrant backgrounds who only speak English and don't retain the language spoken at home lose between $2,000 and $5,000 annually.
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Published by the Seattle Times, November 18, 2015
The Portland study was able to compare students who were randomly assigned to the district's dual-language programs with students who did not receive such instruction.
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Published by Palo Alto Online, August 21, 2015 One works on climate change in the White House. Another started a new job this week as an elementary school dual-immersion teacher. Another is a journalist; another is heading to Chile this fall for a physical therapy internship; and one now serves as program director for DreamCatchers, a local nonprofit that provides after-school tutoring and mentoring to low-income Palo Alto students. The common thread in these seemingly disparate career choices is Palo Alto Unified School District's Spanish immersion program, from which all of these people graduated from many years ago.
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Published by the Amsterdan News, August 14, 2015 I grew up speaking Spanish with my parents, who fled their native Spain during its Civil War and settled in Brooklyn.
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Published by Ischool News, July 29, 2015 A new study contradicted an old assumption that bilingualism is a hindrance in education as learning two languages at once would negatively impact learning and language development. Researchers discovered more grey matter in the brains of bilingual people than the average individual, which means they do better on tasks requiring short-term memory, attention, inhibition, or “executive control.”
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Published by NBC News, June 13, 2015After all, it's my love of words -in both English and Spanish- that has led me to earn a Master's degree from Columbia and establish a career in journalism and communications. It even inspired me to pick up a third language - Italian - in college.
Sometimes, it takes years to come to terms and own our past experiences. I am happy to say I started as an ESL student, and I'm proud of all the languages I know.
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Published by The Independent, May 1, 2015 "Bilinguals get all the perks. Better job prospects, a cognitive boost and even protection against dementia. Now new research shows that they can also view the world in different ways depending on the specific language they are operating in."
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Published by ABC News, February 22,2015 At Connecticut's casinos, the staff can speak to you in nearly any Asian language. At the Mohegan Elementary School, down the road from the Mohegan Sun casino, many of the casino workers' children are preparing for a celebration Wednesday of the Lunar New Year. A dragon parade, with puppets drawn by students in the English-learners program, will march before the student body as Chinese music plays over the loudspeakers. Chinese families account for about 20 percent of the student body, according to educator Lisanne Kaplan, who sees familiar faces among dealers and other workers when she visits the casino.
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Published by New America EdCentral, February 18, 2015 Conventional wisdom in the United States has almost always framed multilingualism as a disadvantage, one that hindered children’s academic and intellectual development and served as an obstacle to cultural assimilation. In 1998, California passed Proposition 227, which imposed wide-reaching restrictions on bilingual education, effectively banning it. Arizona and Massachusetts followed suit soon afterwards. Supporters of these bills insisted that English immersion instruction was the best, quickest way for English learners to learn English and succeed academically. Mainstream media coverage generally tracked the debate at the time and focused on the assumed downsides of diversity—the low achievement and high dropout rates of immigrant children and the additional costs of providing services in other languages.
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Published by Oregonlive.com, February 8, 2015 For the class of 2014, Woodburn accomplished the state's best on-time graduation rate for Latino students, 88 percent, and the second-highest for students who learned English as a second language, 87 percent.
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Published by the Sydney Morning Herald, January 13, 2015 Plenty of research has shown that learning a second language can boost brainpower, but a new study suggests that the effects extend to those who begin in middle childhood.
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Published by the Huffington Post, December 16, 2015 When kids are bilingual, everyone wins.
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Published by Language Magazine, November 23, 2015 According to a recent study, students enrolled in dual-language immersions programs outperform their peers by almost a full year in terms of reading skills.
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Published by the Huffington Post, October 3, 2015 This school year, New York City is expanding its own language-immersion programs to 40 additional schools, which means the Big Apple now has about 150 bilingual public schools.
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Published by the San Francisco Chronicle, September 10, 2015 Bilingual education is typically seen as an educational program for limited English-proficient students. [...] in November 2016, California voters will decide if they will act on a growing body of research that strongly suggests dual language instruction is a superior approach for all students. Seventeen years ago, Californians passed Proposition 227, which severely limits use of the home language in educating language-minority students and greatly reduces the number of students receiving bilingual instruction. In the country as a whole, however, where bilingual education generally remains an option, the reading achievement gap has decreased by nearly a grade level in fourth grade and decreased slightly in eighth grade. A recent long-term study from Stanford University found that limited-English-proficient students enrolled in bilingual programs since elementary school were, by high school, more likely to be deemed proficient in English compared with similar students who had been in all-English programs. A comprehensive review of 63 studies found that bilingualism is reliably associated with cognitive benefits such as increased control over attention, working memory, and both abstract and symbolic representation skills. A study from UC Irvine found that fluent bilingualism is associated with decreased likelihood of dropping out of high school and increased probability of obtaining a higher-status job and higher annual earnings. Bilingual education can also play a role in reducing discrimination and strengthening intergroup relationships, identity and self-esteem. Researchers from the U.S. and Canada have found that white, English-speaking children who participated in Spanish bilingual instruction were more likely to choose Latino children as potential friends compared with their white, English-speaking peers, who, though in multiethnic classrooms, did not take part in bilingual education. More than 40 percent of the state’s 6.2 million public school students speak at least one of 60 languages other than English at home.
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Published by the indian Panorama, August 21, 2015 I grew up speaking Spanish with my parents, who fled their native Spain during its Civil War and settled in Brooklyn. I didn’t know any English when I started kindergarten and the teacher marked me absent for six weeks because I didn’t understand her mangled pronunciation of my last name. Like many of you, I struggled to be bilingual and bicultural, trying to hold on to my parents’ traditions while finding my footing in their adopted land.
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Published by the Toronto Sun, August 14, 2015 Polyglots are often assumed to be at an
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Published by the National Journal, July 15, 2014 One in 10 students is classified as English Language Learners (ELLs). Encouraging them to "live in two languages" helps everyone.
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Published by Science Codex, May 12, 2015 Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, a new study from University of Chicago psychologists finds. Effective communication requires the ability to take others' perspectives. ... "Language is social," noted Fan. "Being exposed to multiple languages gives you a very different social experience, which could help children develop more effective communication skills." Liberman added, "Our discovery has important policy implications, for instance it suggests previously unrealized advantages for bilingual education." Some parents seem wary of second-language exposure for their young children, Kinzler commented. Yet, in addition to learning another language, their children might unintentionally be getting intensive training in perspective taking, which could make them better communicators in any language.
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Published by the Press Democrat, April 30, 2015 "Did you know that our world has about 6,500 languages? Sadly, only 20 percent of Americans speak a language other than English, but I think there is a solution to this. Over the past couple years, I have begun to notice that in many schools in the U.S., including mine, students don’t start the process of learning a new language until middle school. It would be extremely beneficial if schools instead thought about putting more money into acquiring bilingual programs for grammar school students."
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Published by the South China Morning Post, February 23, 2015 Learning two or more languages benefits a child's overall academic ability, and may even guard against disease, an expert says.
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Published by FIU News, February 13, 2015 In a globalized, digitized world, new research shows the key to employability and higher earnings hinges on something South Florida residents learned was crucial long ago – being equally fluent in more than one language.
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Published by the Huffington Post, January 30, 2015 The reality is that these parents who sign up their kids for dual-language kindergarten are onto something....
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