Research+Articles

=**Second Language Learning Benefits Children **=

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http://asiasociety.org/education/world-languages/american-schools/your-brain-languages

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/07/why-it-s-smart-to-be-bilingual.html
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/04/135043787/being-bilingual-may-boost-your-brain-power
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=Global Competitiveness Required: = @http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/2013/07/11/do-small-businesses-need-to-be-multilingual/

=**Scientific Theory Behind Second Language Instruction and Acquisition **=
 * Spanish Schoolhouse Research Report: http://spanishschoolhouse.com/forms/researchsays.pdf **


 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/digest_pdfs/Instructed2ndLangFinalWeb.pdf **

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-wrong-and-right-way-to-learn-a-foreign-language/2012/06/16/gJQAK2xBhV_blog.html

http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/9145/20130829/brain-picks-up-second-language.htm

**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Expert Advice **
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<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">Last fall, after the school administrators in Mansfield, Massachusetts, had eliminated proposed art, music, and physical-education positions in favor of buying computers, Michael Bellino, an electrical engineer at Boston University's Center for Space Physics, appeared before the Massachusetts Board of Education to protest. "The purpose of the schools [is] to, as one teacher argues, 'Teach carpentry, not hammer,'" he testified. "We need to teach the whys and ways of the world. Tools come and tools go. Teaching our children tools limits their knowledge to these tools and hence limits their futures."

<span style="color: #663366; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">In my conversations with Larry Cuban, of Stanford, he argued, "Schooling is not about information. It's getting kids to think about information. It's about understanding and knowledge and wisdom."

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">//Copyright © 1997 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved.// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> //The Atlantic Monthly; July 1997; The Computer Delusion; Volume 280, No. 1; pages 45-62.//

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zach-simon/can-you-learn-a-language-_b_5210241.html

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CALL FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS ... http://www7.national-academies.org/bota/Education_for_Life_and_Work_Presentation.pdf

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