Using the table above we can see that we need. 1  108 lux (or 10 footcandles) for ambient lighting. 2  538 lux (or 50 footcandles) for task lighting for food preparation.
At a time when other types of bilingual education are on the decline and the B-wordâbilingualâhas been scrubbed from the U.S. Department of Education lexicon, dual language programs are showing promise in their mission to promote biliteracy and positive cross-cultural attitudes in our increasingly multilingual world.
Further, the more time spent learning through the non-English language, the higher the level of proficiency attained. To date, early total (one-way) and nearly total (90:10) two-way immersion programs demonstrate higher levels of minority language proficiency than partial or fifty-fifty programs.