Alright, back to the foreign language intra-Q&E debate, sparked by Kevin’s commentary on the questionable utility of studying a foreign language in high school and then another to highlight a reader’s view, and then Sara’s bust up of Kevin’s so-called consensus of two, followed by Margie’s idea to start with Chinese.
So I have to weigh [...]
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Intra-Q&E Foreign Language Smackdown Continues
English-Only Island, (Korea)
In a fairly strong approach to second language acquisition, the government of Korea is planning to create an entire English-only town on the island of Cheju, complete with elementary and secondary schools and colleges. It’s a way to boost students’ language skills, while also saving a chunk of the $3.3 billion that Korean students [...]
Intra-Q&E Debate!
Not to bust up Kevin’s emerging consensus, but if we’re going to start making foreign language a mandatory part of the elementary school curriculum (which I think IS a good idea), I don’t think we should make it mandatory that the language taught be Spanish. I don’t disagree with Kevin that Spanish is useful to [...]
The Rapidly Growing National Consensus on Reforming the Teaching of Foreign Language
A Quick+ED reader writes in about my post on teaching foreign languages:
I agree completely about language education in the early grades. I wasted a great deal of time in high school Spanish classes and had to learn it years later in Mexico. My daughter, on the other hand, has been in a dual language program [...]
Foreign Language Redux
Sherman Dorn takes me to task for generalizing from personal experience in questioning about the value of learning foreign langugages. Totally fair, as I thought I made clear when I said that my question was based “on what is admittedly the worst of all sample sizes of one: myself.” He also makes a point that [...]
Why Is It So Important That American Students Learn a Foreign Language?
I ask this after reading the summary of the new Time magazine cover story, “How to Build a Student for the 21st Century.” In quoting the chairman of UPS it says that country needs:
workers who are “global trade literate, sensitive to foreign cultures, conversant in different languages” — not exactly strong points in the U.S., [...]
Speak English or Die
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month.
Well, not everyone is celebrating in the same way. I’m assuming these folks in Danbury CT, site of the recent “Danbury 11″ protests, are not so keen on it.
Don’t worry, Danbury. A recent study by Douglas Massey of the Woodrow Wilson School, along with Rubén Rumbaut and Frank Bean from the University [...]
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03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman Aldeman's False Fronts is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
03/08/10 | Andrew Rotherham's Eduwonk post on RTT finalists is quoted on Class Struggle.
03/07/10 | Andrew Rotherham is quoted on the success of MATCH in The Times-Picayune.
03/06/10 | Eduwonk's reaction to Ohio's status as a RTT finalist is cited in a Wall Street Journal editorial.
03/05/10 | Andrew Rotherham's reaction to New York's status as a Race to the Top finalist is cited on National Journal.