Episode Synopsis "Should kids be learning in more than one language? Californians just decided “yes.”"

Eighteen years ago Californians voted to prohibit most bilingual education. In November 2016, California voters spoke up for bilingualism: 72 percent of voters overturned the ban by passing a law called Prop 58. In the intervening years, there has been a vast amount of academic research into the bilingual brain. It used to be viewed with suspicion — as an impediment to learning. Now bilingualism is seen as beneficial to some degree. Though, not by everyone.

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