I heard a quick snippet on the new this morning and did a very quick and cursory search.
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What struck me when reading the actual text of the proposed amendment to current statute is that American Sign Language is already recognized as meeting the foreign language requirement in schools. Is this common?
What struck me when hearing the news snippet on the radio is that the bill's sponsor, according to the reporter, used as his reasoning the idea that not enough women are represented in computer sciences and this will increase that. His logic was not provided.
Finally, I am unsure where I stand on this. As a Kentucky native I am used to their forays into educational silliness as well as their periodic and usually failed attempts to address the many areas of economic backwater in the state. My initial reaction was "No! We Americans have too great a tendency already to isolate ourselves." My secondary reaction was more agreeable. I have no data to back this up, but my impression is that nearly everyone in Kentucky who does not voluntarily choose foreign languages in their education will do precisely the minimum and then forget it all immediately upon graduation. There are many places in Kentucky where a second language would help (Spanish, of course, but in Louisville there are large enclaves of other language speakers such as Ethiopian), but most Kentuckians either can, or perceive they can, succeed just fine without a second language. For the second language to take hold, there needs to be both an interest and an opportunity to use it. I suspect more people would be excited about taking programming than Spanish or French; I further suspect that this is more likely at least in the short term to help advance their economic situation.
All of the above is without any deep thought or expertise; I simply find it interesting and worth following.
Page to the actual text is here.
What struck me when reading the actual text of the proposed amendment to current statute is that American Sign Language is already recognized as meeting the foreign language requirement in schools. Is this common?
What struck me when hearing the news snippet on the radio is that the bill's sponsor, according to the reporter, used as his reasoning the idea that not enough women are represented in computer sciences and this will increase that. His logic was not provided.
Finally, I am unsure where I stand on this. As a Kentucky native I am used to their forays into educational silliness as well as their periodic and usually failed attempts to address the many areas of economic backwater in the state. My initial reaction was "No! We Americans have too great a tendency already to isolate ourselves." My secondary reaction was more agreeable. I have no data to back this up, but my impression is that nearly everyone in Kentucky who does not voluntarily choose foreign languages in their education will do precisely the minimum and then forget it all immediately upon graduation. There are many places in Kentucky where a second language would help (Spanish, of course, but in Louisville there are large enclaves of other language speakers such as Ethiopian), but most Kentuckians either can, or perceive they can, succeed just fine without a second language. For the second language to take hold, there needs to be both an interest and an opportunity to use it. I suspect more people would be excited about taking programming than Spanish or French; I further suspect that this is more likely at least in the short term to help advance their economic situation.
All of the above is without any deep thought or expertise; I simply find it interesting and worth following.
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