Costs and Benefits of Bilingual Education in Guatemala

My NGO, El Nahual Community Center, operates partially as a language school, so studying the effects of imposing bilingual education on developing countries is pertinent to my understanding of what I will be working with in Guatemala.  Harry Patrinos wrote one of the pieces I discussed in my literature review; he weighed the costs and benefits of bilingual education in Costs and Benefits of Bilingual Education in Guatemala: A Partial Analysis.  Patrinos addresses the potential loss of culture that comes with introducing a new language to a group of people, but he also reveals the benefits.  These benefits include taking steps towards globalization, which he argues helps speed up the pace of development.  He furthers this point by providing evidence that shows bilingual education as being extremely effective in disadvantaged communities in Guatemala, (Patrinos, 594).  El Nahual Community Center has been successful at reducing the number of students dropping out and repeating grades in the public schools.  According to Patrinos, this is most likely due to providing bilingual education for its community.