The Middle-Class Takeover Of Bilingual Schools

By Natalie Guyette

Tuesday, January 16, 2018, 3:30pm

Tuesday, January 16, 2018, 5:30pm

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One type of multilingual school system known as dual-immersion allows students with varying language skills to thrive in a space together by rotating the language of instruction. While the dual-immersion system fulfills a lot of needs in the modern school system, their rapidly growing popularity among middle class populations may be undermining its original purpose.

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