Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:52:52 +0100 From: "Charles C." <c.k.christacopoulos_removeme_nospamee.ac.uk> Subject: Re: OT - languages was : GM to cut virtually all Saab's ties to Sweden
Pooh Bear wrote: > Walt Kienzle wrote: > > >>>>>Out of curiosity - does the US school curriculum include compulsory >>>>>study >>>>>of a foreign language ? >> >>For illustration, asking about the US school curriculum is much like asking >>about the EU school curriculum. How would that be answered? Establishment >>of school curriculum is done at the local/state level. The US government >>occasionally insinuates themselves in the activities of locally run schools, >>but they can only do that by threatening to withhold payment of the funding >>programs they sponsor. The only areas were the US government can establish >>school curriculum are places like Washington DC, Puerto Rico, US Virgin >>Islands, Guam, and on all US Military Bases (in and outside the US) - all >>are part of the US, but do not enjoy statehood. > > > I hadn't realised that the states could be so individual in that respect. > Naturally I'm aware they have their own legislatures or whatever but I had > imagined that a school curriculum would be pretty much uniform nation wide. > Education in Scotland is different to that in England. And that before the semi-federal system with the Scottish Parliament. -- Please remove _removeme_ to reply. Work: http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/ Hobby: http://www.egothor.org/
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