Education Week – Corey Mitchell
“Students in the Miami-Dade schools in Florida who master two or more languages will earn special recognition that will appear on their transcripts…”The purpose of the Seal of Biliteracy is to encourage students to study languages and provide employers with a method of identifying an individual who has language and biliteracy skills, and promote world language instruction in public schools,” said school board Chairwoman Perla Tabares Hantman, who proposed the policy change.”(more)