Last month, the public schools in Macon, Georgia made national headlines when their Superintendent, Romain Dallemand made a radical move and mandated that all students, Pre-K through 12th grade, take Mandarin Chinese. He could have chosen a heritage language like Spanish, since the Latino population in Georgia has experienced a significant growth spurt over … [Read more...] about Viewpoint: Choosing The Right Foreign Language Program
Twenty-first century education
An Argument For World Language Education In The Twenty-First Century
When I decided to move from Connecticut to Tennessee nearly five years ago, I had already spent a little more than a decade as a public school Spanish teacher. During the first several years, I taught in secondary school, while the remaining years I worked in two other school districts where I designed and implemented Spanish language programs for their … [Read more...] about An Argument For World Language Education In The Twenty-First Century
Into the 21st Century: The Evolution of World Language Textbooks: Part I
A few weeks ago, I was purging books from my overgrown personal library when I encountered an Italian-English textbook that my mother gifted to me nearly two decades ago. Bound in red linen, embossed with black ink and copyrighted 1921, this treasured relic once belonged to my great grandfather, a burly yet gentle Italian who emigrated to the US around the … [Read more...] about Into the 21st Century: The Evolution of World Language Textbooks: Part I