"The best among you are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it." M&M Academy is the first educational institution in the Washington, D.C. area that offers an intensified Arabic Immersion Dual Language Program starting at five years of age. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary a bilingual is a person who is using or able to use two languages with equal fluency. Recent research has shown that a bilingual is ahead of his peers cognitively advantageous in linguistic development, perception, and inhibitory control (better judgment). It has shown that bilinguals can benefit from significant cognitive advantages over monolingual peers in various settings. Because Arabic is the language of the Holy Quran, it is important for students who have high…