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....