The Huffington Post – Jane Swift
“With dozens of studies proving its benefits for young minds and the grim reality that we are far behind other nations in a key competitive skill, you would think that politicians would be falling all over themselves to support language education in our schools. However, increasingly more policies are popping up at the state and federal levels that would put language education further out of reach for more students…Rather than being a “luxury item” on the school menu, language learning is a must-have….In a global economy, learning a foreign language is more critical than ever — and right now we don’t have enough bilingual speakers to keep up with other nations.”(more)