Bilingually Enriched Learners

National Review executive editor Reihan Salam writes, "Learning a foreign language can be enormously enriching. But when we consider how many U.S. adults are functionally illiterate, it is not obvious to me that foreign-language learning should be our highest priority. I’ll settle for English-language learning, which is woefully inadequate."  While Salam doesn't rule out the importance of learning a foreign language, he maintains that it should not be "at the expense of the teaching of basic literacy and numeracy skills."