Editing Language education (section)

===Minority language education policy===
The principal policy arguments in favor of promoting minority language education are the need for multilingual workforces, intellectual and cultural benefits and greater inclusion in global information society.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/community |title=Community Languages in Higher Education: Towards realising the potential |access-date=26 June 2009 |last=Sachdev |first=I |author2=McPake, J  |year=2008 |page=76 |publisher=Routes into Languages }}</ref> Access to education in a minority language is also seen as a human right as granted by the [[European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms]], the [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages]] and the [[UN Human Rights Committee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eumap.org/journal/features/2004/minority_education/edminlang |title=The right to education and minority language |access-date=26 June 2009 |last=de Varennes |first=Fernand |year=2004 |publisher=EUMAP: EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program Online Journal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404121819/http://www.eumap.org/journal/features/2004/minority_education/edminlang |archive-date=4 April 2009 }}</ref><ref>Hult, F.M. (2004). Planning for multilingualism and minority language rights in Sweden. ''Language Policy, 3''(2), 181–201.</ref> Bilingual Education has been implemented in many countries including the United States, in order to promote both the use and appreciation of the minority language, as well as the majority language concerned.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cal.org/resources/Digest/ed379915.html |title=Two-Way Bilingual Education Programs in Practice: A National and Local Perspective |access-date=26 June 2009 |last=National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning |date=July 1999 |publisher=Center for Applied Linguistics |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314215044/http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/ed379915.html |archive-date=14 March 2008 }}</ref>