It was great to read your posting, especially the section on foreign-language skills and job advancement. That connection is such an important one, especially as the number of industrialized nations who are becoming partners for the US grows.

Our organization, Global Language Project, is tackling this issue from the angle of foreign-language-education access. Our mission is to equip disadvantaged public-school students in New York City with foreign-language skills that will help them better compete in a globalized world and workforce.

We launched this fall teaching Mandarin and Spanish to 30 third graders at P.S. 368 Hamilton Heights School in Harlem. Our curriculum was developed by certified language instructors, researchers from Teachers College, Columbia University and New York University, and public-school administrators. Our classes are taught by certified language teachers, and meet after school, three times a week for 90 minutes each session. Keeping in inline the organization’s mission to provide instruction to children attending underserved schools, our program is free of charge to our students and partner schools.

For more information, anyone can visit http://www.globallanguageproject.org

Justyn