[lg policy] US: The Necessity of Language Education

[Harold Schiffman]

 Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


Registan.net



The Necessity of Language Education



National Resource Centers, so designated by the Education Department
to teach foreign languages and culture at universities around the
country, lost 47 percent of their budget for fiscal year 2011 in the
last-minute deal to avert a government shutdown in April — a surprise
to observers who had not thought the program was especially
vulnerable.



Full story:

http://www.registan.net/index.php/2011/09/02/the-necessity-of-language-education/comment-page-1/





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