In eighth place, 86percentt of language graduates can expect to get jobs or a spot on a post-graduate degree course within six months of graduation.
Because of this implementation, Guthrie students were able to fulfill their language requirement for graduation.
Although most high schools and colleges/universities sometimes require one or two years of foreign language study for graduation, this small effort won't suffice if our students are to compete successfully in the global marketplace.
Standardized questionnaires were used to obtain demographic variables (native country and nationality of the parents and children, first language, school duration, graduation and working position of the parents, number of family members).
For example, according to the American Council on Education, 34percentt of all four-year American colleges and universities made foreign-language study a graduation requirement in 1965, while only 20percentt do now.
State Education Commissioner William Librera last week asked the Department of Education to consider eliminating the two-year language course requirement for graduation from high school and replacing it with a requirement that graduates be proficient in a foreign language.
She will be learning a third language before high school graduation.
With a foreign language credit required for graduation and only one language instructor in the district, GVS added a Spanish component, which the district sought to have approved by the Texas Virtual School Network - serving more than 2,000 students throughout Texas - so other rural districts could offer Spanish to its students.
All participants had been born and raised in the environment of their native language at least until graduation from secondary school.
In the decade since the district enacted its dual-language program, the gap in graduation rates between Woodburn's English language learners -- or ELLs -- and native English speakers has closed.
