When Education Secretary William Bennett stood up to speak on bilingual education last week in Manhattan, everyone should have known what was coming. During eight months in office, the tough-talking Secretary has taken on everyone from students to Congress to the Supreme Court. This time he unloaded against the bilingual learning programs that have cost the Federal Government $1.7 billion in 17 years, calling them "a failed path." He was particularly rough on the policy of giving foreign-language-speaking students schoolwork in their own tongue, rather than teaching them English as quickly as possible. "As fellow citizens, we need a common language,"...
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