January 19, 2007
Coalition Calls for Increased Federal Spending on Foreign-Language Instruction
The eye-catching ad begins with a giant numeral six, then continues: "Number of fluent Arabic speakers in the United States Embassy in Iraq."
Solutions for Our Future, a coalition of higher-education and other organizations, is using that startling fact to encourage increased federal spending on foreign-language programs.
The full-page ad, which appeared last week in Roll Call, a newspaper widely read on Capitol Hill, goes on to say: "It's hard to represent America's interests
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