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WHAT'S NEW AT CASIE

Newsletters

• Current Newsletter
• January-March 2009
• September-December 2008
• July-September 2008
• April-June 2008
• January - March 2008

Press Releases and CASIE in the News

• CASIE Appoints New Executive Director
• Language education beyond elementary equals brighter future, AJC Article by Alex Horsley
• CASIE & Awty host International College Fairs
• World Clean Water Crisis is the Focus of Educational Program
• CASIE Teams Experts With Local Students to Explore Water Issues

Special Reports

• A Guide to International Test Scores, Center for Public Education
• Educating All Children: A Global Agenda, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Strengthening the U.S. Government's Leadership in Promoting International Education, a Discussion Paper

International Education in the News - Recent Headlines

• Hall County schools earn top honors, Gainesville Times
• English-only program doubled Boston's ELL dropout rate, Boston Globe
• Finding a Solution to the IB vs. AP Dilemma, Washington Post
• In School for the First Time, Teenage Immigrants Struggle, New York Times
• Early foreign-language lessons boost fluency, Washington Post
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE: A new push to restart classes, Atlanta Journal Constitution
• Despite IB Growth, College Credit Is Elusive, Washington Post
• International studies a key part of Appoquinimink curriculum, Delaware Online
• Minnesota school teaches rare languages in new lab, Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Board of Ed increases grad requirements, Atlanta Journal Constitution
• UN General Assembly Proclaims 2008 International Year of Languages, in Effort to Promote Unity in Diversity, Global Understanding
• Controversy, lack of teachers hamper Arabic study, USA Today, Newsday, Education Week
• One new school, three languages, Sacramento Bee
• Spreading college-level classes to low-income high schools can better prepare kids for college, Christian Science Monitor
• Americans wish they knew more languages, Detroit News
• Bribery and corruption damage universities and schools across the world
• Children of immigrants increasingly study their parents' language, The New York Times,
• Foreign languages languish in U.S.; Wales requires bilingualism, The Boston Globe/Associated Press, The News & Observer, The Guardian
• Kindergarten students learning Mandarin fast in immersion class, by Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle Article 1, Article 2
• Texas may consider English immersion, by Katherine Leal Unmuth, Dallas Morning News
• Bilingual classes improve understanding, BBC News
• Britain mandates foreign language beginning in primary school, The Independent and The Guardian
• Perdue Proposes Killing Foreign Language Program, by James Salzer, Atlanta Journal Constitution
• Ohio elementary school looking at IB certification, Akron Beacon Journal
• More children learn more than one language, by Beth Walton, USA Today
• Texas law helps IB program grow, by Ericka Mellon, Houston Chronicle
• Popular bilingual toys reflect changes in society, by Keiko Morris, Baltimore Sun
• Educators, Parents Eager for an Edge Opt for IB Classes In Grade School, by Ian Shapira, Washington Post
• How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century, by Claudia Wallis and Sonja Steptoe, Time Magazine