Michigan: Dearborn schools leader: Foreign language use limited

[jbale at msu.edu]

This report on Michigan Radio, MI' NPR station, offers a little more  
detail than the Detroit Free Press article - and a little more cause for concern.

Keep in mind that Dearborn secondary schools are partnered with  
Michigan State University's Arabic Flagship, focusing primarily on  
curriculum development at this point.  In addition, one primary and  
one intermediate school use one of the largest FLAP grants to support  
Arabic instruction and curriculum development.  Like I said, this  
newest report is cause for concern.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/michigan/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1458253

Regards,

Jeff

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Jeffrey Bale, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Second Language Education
World Languages Faculty Leader
Department of Teacher Education

College of Education
Michigan State University
356 Erickson Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824

517-353-0750 (office)
517-505-8888 (cell)
517-432-5092 (fax)
jbale at msu.edu
http://bale.wiki.educ.msu.edu/

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