The articles discuss the necessity of including foreign language as an integral part of the curriculum at all levels of instruction. The following chapters are included: "Elementary School Foreign Language: Key Link in the Chain of Learning" (rationale, innovations, immersion programs, and interdisciplinary approaches); "Foreign Language in the Secondary School; Reconciling the Dream with the Reality" (state and local leadership, Illinois and New York statewide plans, exchange programs, international studies, and computer assisted instruction); "'Nurturing the Ties that Bind': Links between Foreign Language Departments and the Rest of the Post-Secondary Educational Enterprise" (international studies, faculty development, case studies, writing in the foreign language curriculum, commercial language courses, foreign languages and professional education, new constituencies, and academic articulation); "Foreign Language and the 'Other' Student" (low achievers, socially disadvantaged, mentally handicapped, and learning disabled); and "Toward a Multidimensional Foreign Language Curriculum" (concept, development, integration, and implementation). A section is also included on the evolution of the Northeast Conference since its inception in 1954. Lists of conference officers and an index of reports since 1954 are appended. (MSE)