Students who graduate with foreign language skills hold a competitive advantage as they enter the workforce. The Center for Digital Education reports that, when surveyed, 97 percent of K-12 and 96 percent of higher education leaders consider training in language and multiculturalism necessary in order to compete within the global workforce.

Yet in 2012, Forbes reported that only 18 percent of Americans speak a second language while 53 percent of Europeans, and a growing number of individuals in other nations, are bilingual. It seems there is plenty of room for improvement and expansion of language education in the states.
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