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96TH CONORESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT
2d Session I No. 96-1388
ENCOURAGING STUDY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
SEPTEMBER 25, 1980.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. PERKINS, from the Committee on Education and Labor,
submitted the following
R E P O R T w i n g Cd jL I
[To accorpany H. Con. Res. 301] 0 P fG!NA
The Committee on Education and Labor, to whom was referred the
concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 301) expressing the sense of the
Congress that there is a need to strengthen course offerings and re-
quirements in foreign 1 language studies and international studies in
Nation's schools, colleges, and universities, having considered the same,
report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the
concurrent resolution as amended do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
Strike out all after the resolving clause and insert in lieu thereof the
following:
That it is the sense of the Congress that local educational agencies and institu-
tions of higher education should consider strengthening the study of foreign
languages and cultures through appropriate actions, including the following:
the gradual establishment of requirements for the study of foreign languages
and cultures for entrance to lxostsecondary institutions; the addition of profi-
clency in a foreign language and work in international studies as requirements
for college graduation; the improvement of international studies in the curric-
uluni at all levels of education; the encouragement of international oxcliange
programs; the offering of a wider variety of languages at the secondary school
level; and the placing of greater emphasis on the teaching of foreign languages
and cultures for elementary schoolchildren.
In the preamble, strike out all of the sixth paragraph and all in the
seventh paragraph through the colon and insert in lieu thereof the
following:
Whereas the Federal Government has not and should not seek
to establish education curriculum, but on occasion has urged
that cervtin national needs be dealt with at the State and
local level; and
Whereas the President's Commission on Foreign Language
and International Studies has recommended that greater
emphasis needs to be placed on the study of these subjects:
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