Educational Leadership

Luis von Ahn is the founder and boss of Duolingo, the world's most popular language learning app.

Will the growing demand for multilingual early-childhood programs push out the students these programs were designed to serve?

The British Council says some parents now see European languages as less useful because of Brexit.

In December, Conor Williams asked whether the growing demand for multilingual early-childhood programs might push out the students these programs were designed to serve.

Conor Williams’s insightful piece on dual-language learning, “The Intrusion of White Families Into Bilingual Schools,” acknowledges the impact of rapidly changing demographics on many bilingual schools in Washington, D.C. Yet by pointing the finger at one category of parents, attention is diverted from the real issue: We are slicing a cake that is too small. If a fraction of the resources thrown at stem over the last decade, for example, were thrown at bilingual education, we could make multilingualism an integral part of our education system and correct most of the current inequities.