"The decision last week by Judge Raner Collins to release Arizona from court oversight of its education programs for English learners illustrates why public policy should be debated by legislators, not argued by lawyers before judges."
"Along with science and technology, schools nationwide have been pressed to add more world-language instruction to better prepare students for the global marketplace.
The U.S. State Department has helped to fund programs in languages it deems critical to national security, including Mandarin and Arabic, and last fall, the U.S. Department of Education for the first time produced a strategy to improve international education."