Past Coverage

• What Is the Proper Mission of Spanish Departments? - September 2, 2005
• Hispanic Studies Must Reform to Stave Off Obsolescence - December 19, 2008
• Recommendations on Transforming Foreign-Language Education Continue to Provoke Debate - March 5, 2008
• A University Plans to Promote Languages by Killing Its Languages Department - March 9, 2001
• The Best Ways to Teach American Students How to Speak Foreign Languages - April 13, 2001

Featured Commentary

• The Berkeley Protest: Fresh Anger in the Footsteps

  The students protesting the big tuition increase at the University of California impress Murray Sperber, who was in their shoes 45 years ago.

• Teaching Matters: Creating Lives in the Classroom

  Online avatars bring German history to life for students at Stanford. Edith Sheffer explains.

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  A Fine Legal Mess: When Student Groups Collide With Anti-Bias Policy

  Can a college compel a student group to abide by antidiscrimination rules that violate its religious views? The U.S. Supreme Court isn't saying, writes Robert M. O'Neil.

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