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Entries from January 2008

How to not start a School

January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

How not to start a School: 
The 1973 Middle East War left the U.S. with at least two changes: we paid more for gas and private language schools exploded with students from the Arabian Gulf and Iran. Iranians were everywhere. A significant minority never even got to the school they were to attend. 
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To Dr. Paul Schneider

January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

The World Languages department at Washington Academy of Languages (http://www.wal.org/wl/index.html) opened its first courses in 1984, a time when languages were mainly taught on university campuses. Twenty-four years ago, language study was certainly not in the forefront of people’s mind in Seattle (http://www.seattle.gov/); back then, one could graduate from high school without being exposed to [...]

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