Same topic, different tongue: the American Academy of Arts and Sciences report on language learning
Same topic, different tongue: the American Academy of Arts and Sciences report on language learning
- March 1, 2017
- Ruben Rumbaut, sociology, via New America, March 1, 2017
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One of the panel members, University of California, Irvine Professor Rubén Rumbaut, offered the core of the commission’s framing, “Ironically, despite the diversity of American languages, United States has acquired the dubious designation of being a language graveyard...we have immigrants and children of immigrants not passing on their language skills.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/aaasdlls/.
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