http://www.suntimes.com/news/maxedout/2262994,CST-NWS-cuts12.article
This article about Chicago public schools makes me verifiably triste. It seems that world languages make for an "easy cut" when it comes to school budgets... but it clearly makes our students less competitive in the world market and robs them of a myriad of cognitive benefits.
A better approach would be integration of world languages into the core curriculum, so that they become a greater support to the coursework being studied. I've tried this a few times in my classroom - re-teaching the current science lesson in Spanish - but have found that unless I do that 100% of the time, it doesn't seem very effective. Maybe I need to give it another go - but would that style put a damper on basic conversation skills?
What kind of teacher does it take to learn the core curriculum of a school and fuse it with world language learning? I think I'd need an aide...
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