Today I came across an article in the New York Times "Room for Debate" feature regarding the importance of learning languages. Lawrence Summers, former President of Harvard, wrote an editiorial about university curriculae going forward in the 21st century which questioned whether or not learning a foreign language will be as important as it was in the past: "English’s emergence as the global language, along with the rapid progress in machine translat
Today I came across Connectingourworld.org, a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote study abroad education across the US. Connecting Our World's website has some great resources for learning about study and travel abroad; it's definitely worth a few clicks. And best of all, everyone's favorite public television travel host, Rick Steves, has a video on the site encouraging both students