March 24, 2006

What America Must Do to Achieve Competence

By RONALD D. LIEBOWITZ

At the U.S. University Presidents Summit on International Education, in January, which I attended, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings set out to make Americans' foreign-language competency a central component of U.S. national policy. If what they proposed comes to fruition, the United States would be more secure and better able to compete in the global marketplace. Americans would also engage the world in a fundamentally different

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