Bilingual education success, but policy failure

Success and Failure in Foreign Policy

■ Abstract The field of foreign policy analysis needs a common set of concepts and analytical frameworks to facilitate comparison of alternative policy options. Not only is general agreement lacking, there is not even a common understanding of what is meant by success. In order to build policy-relevant knowledge concerning success and failure in foreign policy, the following questions must be a...

The Failure of Education Policy in Israel: Politics vs. Bureaucracy

Policy failure or success? Detecting market failure in China's housing market

Due to a high vacancy rate of residential homes, housing prices remain sticky in most urban areas of China, which causes higher searching and bargaining costs. With an inefficient outcome, deadweight loss and market failure arises. To assess the Chinese government’s housing policies in 2010, we develop a dynamic equilibrium model, in which we demonstrate how the sticky price results in market f...

The Bilingual Education Policy in Singapore: Implications for Second Language Acquisition

Widely hailed as an educational success story, Singapore, a multilingual island nation in Southeast Asia, embraces an officially bilingual education policy. English is the medium of all content-area education from the start of schooling, with students’ official “mother tongue” required as a single subject. Although called the student’s “mother tongue,” these languages may not be the student’s h...

Bilingual Education Policy in Singapore: An Analysis of its Sociohistorical Roots and Current Academic Outcomes

Using available data from Singapore’s national census and economic reports, national exams, international comparison studies and small-scale studies, this paper examines the sociohistorical circumstances that led to the creation of Singapore’s bilingual education policy, the results of this policy on recent academic achievement and implications for second language acquisition theory. National e...