Editorial by Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, the author of “Get Ahead by Going Abroad” and an upcoming book on “Raising Global Children.”
Posted September 15, 2009 in the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Go to article “No More Cuts! Keep Foreign Languages in Schools”

The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) funds foreign language instruction in elementary and secondary schools under Title V of the No Child Left Behind Act (2001).  FLAP provides 3-year grants to states and local school districts to establish, improve, or expand innovative kindergarten through grade twelve modal programs.
The following Local Education Agencies received [...]

Advancing in Russian Through Through Narration by Aneta Pavlenko and Victoria Driagina is a new CALPER publication for teachers of Russian. The book focuses on two important aspects of advanced language proficiency, namely narrative and conceptual proficiency.
Narrative proficiency refers to the ability to tell narratives that are similar to those of native speakers of Russian. [...]