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National Reports and Breaking News
Building the Foreign Language Capacity We Need: Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for a National Language Framework, written by Fred Jackson and Meg Malone, is a new report out of the NFLC & CAL. Read this informed opinion about the steps that the U.S. must take. Do you want to read more? See their interview in the Spring 2010 MaFLA Newsletter. Do you want to know more? Jackson and Malone will be speakers at the MaFLA-sponsored panel discussion for foreign language and school administrators at the ACTFL conference in Boston in November. We will post information about the session as soon as it becomes available. Be sure to invite your school administrator to join you at the session!
Title VI and Fulbright-Hays have created a new website called U.S. Global Competence for the 21st Century. Posted on the site are two well done videos that promote the usefulness of foreign language study in a variety of careers. Engaging the World: U.S. Global Competence in the 21st Century is the full length version while U.S.Global Competence: A 21st Centruy Imperative is a more concise. Well worth a look!
Race to the Top - President Obama's Race to the Top is a challenge to provide a top notch education to all students. Learn more. [July 28, 2009]
Preparing students for the global economy is one of the key concepts behind the 21st Century Skills agenda. Read more about this report.
The executive summary of the report of the New Commision on the Skills of the American Workforce examines the challenges of globalization and the way that education must change to meet those challenges. Read more...
ACTFL provides a webpage with the latest reports, position papers and government activities. For example, the latest student survey reveals what students are thinking about foreign language study in an easy to digest graphic format.
Joint National Committee for Languages - National Council for Languages and International Studies -
Better known as JNCL-NCLIS, they are our voice in Washington. For background on this organization read more here...
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