Foreign policy 101: Teach kids key languages

Seeded on Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:09 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

A federal program based on the premise that you can engage foreign countries more effectively when you speak their language is teaching kindergartners Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Hindi and Farsi.

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