International Education and Foreign Languages: Keys to Securing America's FutureNational Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Education, Committee to Review the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays International Education Programs National Academies Press, 2007 M07 18 - 414 páginas International Education and Foreign Languages reviews the Department of Education's Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs, which provide higher education funding for international education and foreign language programs. This book offers a timely look at issues that are increasingly important in an interconnected world. It discusses the effect of the nation's lack of expertise in foreign languages and cultural knowledge on national security and global competitiveness and it describes the challenges faced by the U.S. educational system and the federal government in trying to address those needs. The book also examines the federal government's recent proposal to create a new National Security Language Initiative, the role of the Department of Education, and current efforts to hold higher education programs accountable. This book provides information and recommendations that can help universities, educators, and policy makers establish a system of foreign language and international education that is ready to respond to new and unanticipated challenges around the world. |
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... discussed by the 9/11 Commission (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 2004). Long-term national needs are more expansive and include the need to develop and maintain competencies to respond to future ...
... discussed in detail in the report. A related criticism is that university-based language training is not sufficiently linked with the specific language needs of federal bureaucracies, such as the Departments of State and Defense and the ...
... discussed in the next chapter, the committee concludes that capacity must be maintained in a broad range of languages. In addition to building foreign language expertise, Title VI/FH programs serve national security needs, in the long ...
... discussed in a single chapter, Chapter 4, given the relationship between vertical integration with the K-12 system and outreach by Title VI programs. Part III outlines the committee's conclusions and recommendations related to the ...
... discussed in Chapter 3, these mechanisms are used to target program applications toward specific priorities. Appendix D provides a brief history of foreign language assessment in the United States. Appendix E presents tabular ...