This publication is a guide for foreign language teachers in improving their curricula and achieving better foreign language education outcomes. The objective is to help students develop more usable skills and realistic cultural awareness. The first chapter locates foreign language education within the College Board's larger Educational Equality Project. Chapter 2 explains the needed outcomes of foreign language study, expanding on the statement of those outcomes in an earlier publication, "Academic Preparation for College," and clarifying the central concept of proficiency in another language. Chapter 3 focuses on curriculum, outlining a process that departments and districts can use to move from overall program outcomes to decisions about specific course content. Chapter 4 is devoted to classroom strategies and gives suggestions to implement the goal of proficiency-based teaching. Chapter 5 looks at the larger question of the relationship between foreign language study and the development of such basic academic competencies as reading, writing, speaking and listening, reasoning, observing, studying, mathematics, and using computers. Chapter 6 raises further questions for discussion. (MSE)