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Advocacy Feature: School Cut Back on Foreign Language Classes--Emphasis Shifts to ABC Tests
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Silberman, Todd – Learning Languages, 2004
In a state (North Carolina, 2006) that once pushed foreign language lessons as early as kindergarten, there has been a steady curtailing of instruction in second languages to devote more time and effort to basic reading and math instruction in English, two subjects heavily tested under the state's ABCs and federal No Child Left Behind…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Retrenchment, Second Language Instruction, Educational Change