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Duncan Addresses Latino Community in a Twitter Town Hall
Language Magazine
Among the issues Duncan addressed were the early education gap, the cost of higher education, the DREAM Act, and foreign language training. Duncan stressed the importance of pre-K education in preparing children for school, calling on parents to make ...

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Md. school is latest in D.C. area to add Chinese
WTOP
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages recently found there were 59860 Chinese language students in public schools in the 2007-08 school year, up from 20292 in 2004-05. The Chinese immersion program at Paint Branch, begun this school ...

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PolicyMic

The old days are gone, pet: it's time we talked the talk
This is Staffordshire
The last government made learning foreign languages optional in England. But there is evidence of an overall decline in the number of students taking GCSEs in languages, with statistics showing a fall from 61 per cent in 2005 to 44 per cent in 2010.
Should English Be the Official Language of the United States?PolicyMic

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English As An Official Language? Not in Montgomery
Patch.com
More counties are doing more to communicate in different languages to residents. As Anne Arundel County considers a bill to make English its official language, more and more counties are moving towards communicating with residents in multiple languages ...

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The Atlantic

Translating the Bible—Into an E-Book That Works on Any Phone
The Atlantic
YouVersion produces and disseminates Bibles in many languages with a focus on creating readable mobile-ready texts. (How many languages, you ask? Well, take a look.) If you check out their mobile app page you'll see that they leave few platforms ...

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Out-of-touch school punishes girl for saying 'I love you'
Statesman Journal
Just days after I wrote a column about the need for this country to not only ensure that all its public school students are fluent in English but also be able to communicate in other languages comes this story out of Shawano, Wis.
Benching could result in cultural lessons for Catholic schoolsThe Shawano Leader

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