NightSide - An Anti-English Language Mandate

BOSTON (CBS) - Last week, the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services issued a policy statement addressing young children who are learning English as a second language. The departments advised states to teach early education students in their home language, even if it is not English, and to encourage them to hold onto their culture. Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, talks with Dan about why he thinks this is a terrible precedent. Do you think non-English speaking children should be offered instruction in their native language? Or does that undermine the idea that people in this country should assimilate to fit in with American society?

Originally broadcast June 9th, 2016.

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