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| Title | Foreign Language Teacher Shortage in Maine |
| Body | From http://fanset6.blogspot.com/2007/02/foreign-language-teacher-shortage-grows.html Foreign language teacher shortage grows By LARRY GRARD Staff Writer, Kennebec Journal, Sunday, February 04, 2007 The Carrabec school district in Maine advertised for months for someone to teach both Spanish and French at Carrabec Community School. But by the time the current school year was half over, the ads still had not managed to attract someone who could teach Spanish. School officials decided to settle for a teacher of French. "There aren't that many applicants no matter how you word it," said School Administrative District 74 Superintendent Regina Campbell. "We're not producing language teachers, and offerings have been expanded to the middle school and elementary levels. The supply has been depleted and the demand has been increasing." Last year, not a single student graduating from the University of Maine School of Education and Human Development -- in other words, someone who wants to be a teacher -- earned a foreign language degree. In the past five years, there have been only nine. Read the entire article at http://fanset6.blogspot.com/2007/02/foreign-language-teacher-shortage-grows.html . |
| Source | Kennebec Journal |
| Inputdate | 2007-02-18 10:44:46 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-02-19 00:00:00 |
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