ABSTRACT
The paritetic school system is an effective multilingual best practice model that has developed in the Ladin Valleys of South Tyrol, located in the Alps in the North of Italy, on the border to Austria and Switzerland. It was conceived in order to accommodate the needs of the Ladin population (see Videsott, 2005a, for a definition of Ladin), which is a minority group that lives close to other ethnic groups-primarily Germans and Italians-and therefore has to adapt to a multilingual reality (see Belardi 1995; Richebuono 1991; Taibon 2005; Verra 2000).
