Foreign language enrollments among secondary and tertiary students have risen, according to the Modern Language Association / MLA. German enrollments went up 2.3% among college students. Bilingual education and language study on the whole is on the rise.
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- Enrollments in the Twelve Leading Foreign Languages in Selected Years (p.2)
- Foreign Language Enrollments, Grades 7-12, in Public Secondary Schools, Fall 2000 (pp. 3-4)
- Language Enrollments in Public High Schools, Grades 9-12, 1890-2000 (p. 5)
- State Totals by Language, Grades 7-12, Fall 2000 (p. 6)
- German Enrollments by Language and Level of Instruction, Grades 7-12, Fall 2000 (p. 7)
- Foreign Language Enrollment Survey for College Students, Fall 2002 (pp. 8-10)
- More College Students Studying Foreign Languages Than Ever Before (p. 11)
- Who is Paying the Bills? The Federal Budget and Foreign Language Education in U.S. Schools and
Universities, 2004 (p. 12) - Ancestry of U.S. Population by Rank, 2000 (p. 13)
- Foreign People Living in Burlington County, NJ, Census 2000 and Census Survey 2005 (p. 14)
- Foreign-Born in USA by State - Census 1990, 2000 and Census Survey 2005 (pp. 15-16)
- Poster: A Slice of American Life Has a German Filling (p.17)
- U.S. Map: German American Heritage, 2000 (p. 18)
- Languages Most Spoken at Home, 2000 (p. 19)
- Map: The Density of Speakers of Foreign Languages, 2000 (p. 20)
- German as the Official Language of the USA: Legend or True Story (p. 21)
- Bilingual Education and the Growth of Language Study (pp. 22-23)
- Remarks by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, January 2006 (p. 24)
- 2007 Objectives for World Languages, U.S. Department of Education (p. 25)
- Remarks by Prof. Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University, at ACTFL, November 2006 (pp. 26-29)
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