Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Friday, April 18, 2008
'Critical foreign languages' taught via online learning in more schools - Tim Puko, TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sierra Sailor greeted the guests in her classroom with a soft-spoken "Ni hao." .... Next fall, she will be among about 130 students in the region's two biggest Mandarin programs at Upper St. Clair and A. W. Beattie Career Center in McCandless. These blossoming Chinese programs are the biggest change for local schools since the federal government boosted financing two years ago for "critical foreign languages," including Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Arabic.

 



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