Canada recently announced a sizable budget for distance learning programs aimed at educating Canadian immigrants. Should the United States do the same? Susan Smith Nash from XplanaZine says yes. According to her article, Bilingual Distance Learning That Works: Needed Now, there is a desperate need for programs aimed at helping English language learners...

"We are ignoring and/or imposing ineffective distance education strategies for our bilingual and non-English speaking populations. Right now, we have an urgent need to provide the kind of education and training that will benefit bilingual and non-English speaking populations in the United States, and we need to do it as quickly and effectively as possible in order to develop human potential, communities, and economies across the spectrum of socio-economic and demographic groups, professions, and vocations."