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Title | Article: St. John Regional's New FLEX Program |
Body | http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=105630 St. John Regional's foreign language program a success By Marge Neal June 1, 2010 As St. John Regional Catholic School wraps up the first year of its new foreign language program, school officials are calling it a success. The school, which has offered Spanish to all students beginning in first grade, switched this year to a program called Foreign Language Experience, or FLEX. Students are exposed to a different language in grades five through eight. This year, fifth-graders studied sign language, sixth-graders learned Latin and Greek root words, seventh-graders studied Italian and eighth-graders got a taste of Chinese. School administrators changed their approach to foreign language after studying research that showed if less than 5 percent of weekly class time was being spent on foreign language instruction, a sampler program that provided an introduction to several languages would be more meaningful. Read the full article at http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=105630 |
Source | Frederick News Post, Maryland |
Inputdate | 2010-06-20 12:32:13 |
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Publishdate | 2010-06-21 00:00:00 |
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