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| Title | Middlebury to Develop Online Language Venture |
| Body | From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/education/14middlebury.html?hpw Middlebury to Develop Online Language Venture By TAMAR LEWIN April 13, 2010 Middlebury College, a small Vermont college known for its rigorous foreign-language programs, is forming a venture with a commercial entity to develop online language programs for pre-college students. The college plans to invest $4 million for a 40 percent stake in what will become Middlebury Interactive Languages. The partnership, with the technology-based education company K12 Inc., will allow Middlebury to achieve two goals, said Ronald D. Liebowitz, the president of the college: It will help more American students learn foreign languages, an area in which they lag far behind Europeans; and it will give Middlebury another source of revenue. Partnerships between universities and commercial entities have become increasingly common in recent years, but the Middlebury venture is unusual in that it ties the college’s academic reputation in foreign languages to a third-party vendor. Moving into such an uncharted area carries risks, education experts said. Read the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/education/14middlebury.html?hpw |
| Source | New York Times |
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