Monday, November 9, 2009

News & Reports

News & reports on early foreign language programs

The Washington Post: Budget woes frustrate foreign language goals (FCPS)

Fairfax Times: Teaching students about other languages may get lost in translation (Fox Mill Elementary)

Video: FLES – Teaching Foreign Language to Elementary Students (FCPS Superintendent Jack Dale)

NBC: Adios to foreign language programs (Shrevewood Elementary)

Video: FLES Arabic Program (Beech Tree Elementary)

Reston Connection: Immersion Program Reinforced (Fox Mill Elementary)

American Observer: Fairfax school offers students Arabic (Beech Tree Elementary)

Close Up City of Fairfax Schools: Learning Chinese (Providence Elementary)

Video: FCPS partial immersion program

Video: FCPS FLES program

Washington Post: Finding fluency in language lessons (School in Silver Springs, MD)

WRAL: Students schooled in second languages earlier than ever (North Carolina school)

Columnist: A case for foreign-language programming in our elementary schools

ACTFL featuring variety of news articles on foreign language

FLAGS co-organizer, Tina Meek, talks to Channel 9 News live at the Herndon H.S. December 2, 2009 rally that took place before the final Community Dialogue.


Tina Meeks, FLAGS co-organizer talks to Channel 9


More than 100 demonstrators showed up in the pouring rain at the Dec. 2 rally in Herndon.


Listen in on what President Obama thinks about learning foreign languages....