Higher+Learning

STARTALK
STARTALK umd.edu site "home to information on teaching and learning Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Russian, Persian, Turkish, Swahili and Urdu. The purpose of this site is to share information on implementing programs as well as to share resources on curriculum design, instructional materials, assessment tools, and useful links. Information on our site is particularly targeted toward parents and students, teachers, current and future program directors, and consultants, such as STARTALK’s team leaders and site visitors." more STARTALK 2010 - Chinese Student Programs in CA

**Flaship Program**
... "Begun in 2002, the federal Language Flagship initiative originally funded graduate-level study in the so-called critical languages – those languages for which demand for trained speakers exceeds supply -- but has since expanded to encompass undergraduate education and three pilot K-12 programs, too. In 2009-10, about 825 undergraduates were enrolled in Language Flagship programs, and 89 graduate students. Undergraduate enrollment is expected to grow to at least 1,000 in the current academic year, while graduate enrollment will stay steady. " ... "How have the Flagship programs achieved this? 'The answer is there’s no magic new method here at all,' said Davidson. 'Flagship draws on an array of best practices that have been developed by the field for decades. No one came up with anything new here. It’s more a matter of having the resources from an administrative point of view for configuring all the best things that we know for learning a language as a young adult.'" more

Chinese Flagship Ohio State University