{"id":908,"date":"2003-07-02T01:38:24","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T05:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/02\/in-the-land-of-the-blind\/"},"modified":"2003-07-02T01:38:24","modified_gmt":"2003-07-02T05:38:24","slug":"in-the-land-of-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/02\/in-the-land-of-the-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Land of the Blind&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a140'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Governor Mitt Romney yesterday moved to end &#8221;two-way&#8221; bilingual<br \/>\n        education programs. I am no fan of what in American education is called<br \/>\n        bilingual education: segregated academic instruction in languages other<br \/>\n        than English. But this disastrous decision eliminates the few existing<br \/>\n        programs that are truly bilingual; mixed groups of native and non-native<br \/>\n        speakers<br \/>\n        of English learning together in multiple languages simultaneously. These<br \/>\n        programs are absolutely necessary if the United States is to remove the<br \/>\n        biggest impediment to true globalization of the American dream. Sadly,<br \/>\n        the US is the most mono-linguistic and language bigoted country in the<br \/>\n        world. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/stories\/storyReader$139\">Continues&#8230;.<\/a>.<br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/stories\/storyReader$139\"><br \/>\n        To read more of my views on bilingual ed, click here<\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/182\/metro\/Bilingual_ed_program_vetoed%2B.shtml\">To<br \/>\n        read the news story on Mitt&#8217;s call, click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Mitt Romney yesterday moved to end &#8221;two-way&#8221; bilingual education programs. I am no fan of what in American education is called bilingual education: segregated academic instruction in languages other than English. But this disastrous decision eliminates the few existing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/02\/in-the-land-of-the-blind\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}