"World Language" News Items

Elementary Spanish Program Could Be Target Of Budget Cuts
Leesburg Today
She told board members that 13 seventh grade students chose to take high school level world language courses in 2007, and this school year that figure has grown to 2883 students. She also told them that middle school and high school language teachers ...

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Iberia Parish Pre-K and Kindergarten Registration
KATC Lafayette News
World language education is a strategic pillar in this endeavor. Research indicates that long extended, continuous sequences of a second language result in the following benefits: - Better preparedness for the 21st century job market.

How to Cure Dyslexia: Part 2
The New American
And because of the spread of English to the New World, it has become a world language in science and commerce that everyone now wants to learn. However, when you are forced to use 26 letters to stand for 44 sounds, you have to make some rather ...

Spectacular Performances Mark Chinese New Year Celebration
Patch.com
Students in the high school's Chinese World Language Program volunteered at the celebration, including serving as Masters of Ceremony for the evening show and helping to run children's activities during the afternoon.

World Language Days celebrated at IMAX Theatre
ThisweekLive
Jan Dobson: The first line of the above article is a propaganda machine classic. Instead of... Cindy: This series "Bone" does not belong in early learning litracy. The written conte... Tom M: Maybe Gov. Mark "Trust Fund" Dayton should simply take the ...

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Winnetka's language efforts at odds with art offerings
Winnetka Talk
In an effort to improve what many people considered an inadequate world language course, district administrators proposed increasing the amount of instruction time in fifth and sixth grades next year. They recommended sixth graders study Spanish or ...

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Guest Column: Holmdel Schools Mid-Year Progress Report
Patch.com
Each goal – World Language program enhancement, Technology improvement and integration into instruction, Character Education, Differentiated Instruction, and Financial Enhancements – builds on prior years' efforts, although this report focuses on ...

Most NFA tuition bills set to drop
Norwich Bulletin
After several years of major capital projects across the campus, Chief Financial Officer Richard Rand said educators are focusing now on student achievement with new requirements, such as the introduction of a world language curriculum starting in 2014 ...

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Winnetka's language efforts at odds with art offerings
Winnetka Talk
In an effort to improve what many people considered an inadequate world language course, district administrators proposed increasing the amount of instruction time in fifth and sixth grades next year. They recommended sixth graders study Spanish or ...

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Baltimore Sun
St. Paul's School for Girls 'flips' for teaching technique
Baltimore Sun
Teachers are embracing the concept in middle schools and high schools, and for all types of classes including English and world language classes. Adams hosted educators from Towson University and Friends School at the World Flipped Classroom Open House ...

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Education Week News
U.S., Chinese Schools Build Virtual Ed. Partnerships
Education Week News
"We feel it is mission-critical for every student to become fluent in a world language and fluent in multiple world cultures." To that end, the district hires only native speakers to teach foreign languages, hosts both virtual and physical exchange ...

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Letters: Support Schools at Feb. 7 Budget Hearing
Patch.com
Specifically, these are related to the world language program, books and consumables, and the addition of one shared social worker for the elementary schools. The world language program, developed by Darien administrators and approved by the Board of ...

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StandardNet
Teacher of Mandarin Chinese honored to share treasures with Davis students
StandardNet
It is essential to be bilingual and bicultural," said Bonnie Flint, secondary world language supervisor for the Davis district. Flint visits China with a group of about eight educators every spring to select Chinese teachers for schools across the ...

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School budget will face public Monday night
Ridgefield Press
The budget would increase spending 3.26%, or $2.6 million, from $79.2 million and would add daily sixth grade world language, increase high school graduation requirements, and prepare the district for outside assessments and testing.

Stamford Ed. Budget Places Priorities on Staff, Benefits, World Language
Patch.com
As far as single programs, the BOE has decided to support to Elementary World Language, health education, and pre-K education as major new initiatives. "With a $237 million budget, we should be able to do World Lanugage," Hamilton said.

West considering after-school elementary language program
Chicago Sun-Times
This week, the School Board discussed an opportunity to pilot an elementary school world language after-school program at locations to be announced, beginning next year. “The earlier they learn it, the more proficient they can become,” world languages ...

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Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
Woodbury world language students ring in Chinese New Year
Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
For the most momentous occasion in the Chinese culture, a handful of Chinese world language students donned an animated dragon, beat on a gong, and made their way through the school's corridors and some classrooms cheering what translated into, ...

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Parents can learn more about language immersion programs in the St.- 10:34 am
St. Cloud Times
... a Chinese immersion program at Madison Elementary School and a Spanish immersion program at Clearview in Clear Lake. Students start in kindergarten and are mostly taught in the world language. Students continue to move through the program each year.

Who's Interested in a Charter? Three Families Give Their Reasons
Patch.com
I'm excited that tomorrow, we'll find out if the NJ Department of Education's 1996 World Language Curriculum Framework can at last be implemented — with a school centered around bilingualism and global competence."

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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Trenton teacher takes legal battle to state court
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
In a suit filed in Mercer County Superior Court, Alexander Nicolas, a World Language teacher at the city's Daylight Twilight alternative school, says he was passed over numerous times for promotions because he is a Panamanian immigrant. ...