Sunday, June 12, 2011

A Step Back for Learning Languages - NYTimes.com

It's been a brilliant success - the conservative hegemony. They broke the unions, slashed benefits, and kept salaries low. That helped make voters more friendly to the anti-tax message. Here's another little step forward for ignorance. We don't care enough about teaching kids second languages to bother measuring their competence. - GWC

A Step Back for Learning Languages - NYTimes.com:
by Jim Dwyer
"New York is filled with people who either cannot speak English or who can speak nothing but.Next week, students across the state will take Regents exams in foreign languages for the last time, as the state is dropping its tests in Spanish, French and Italian.
This will save $700,000 a year, or to put it another way, roughly the cost of policing a homestand at one of the baseball stadiums.
Do not be confused, dear citizens and students: the state still believes that it is important to learn foreign languages and culture before graduation.
Just not $700,000 important"

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