The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that an estimated 38.8 million Hispanics live in the United States, making Hispanics the largest minority in the country. According to race and Hispanic-origin estimates, the ethnic group accounted for nearly half of the population increase for the United States since April 1, 2000.…
In an increasingly global economy, and as terrorism and war bring world events home, American students have returned to the study of foreign languages in record numbers.
According to a study released Thursday by the Modern Language Association, 1.4 million American college students are enrolled in foreign language study _ the most since the group conducted its first survey in 1958.…
So why, you ask, should one study different languages? I mean, taking the 101 class for Spanish or French, and trying to learn those infinite number of vocabulary words can be quite boring. It feels even worse when the professor is talking and you really don't understand a thing.…
Just before our country went to war against Iraq, the National Geographic Society surveyed American college students and found that 87 percent could not locate Iraq on a map.
What a sad state of affairs. To many of us in education, however, it is not a surprise.…
