blendedschools.net was awarded the largest educational grant inthe Wall Street West program to expand the teaching of Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and Russian to K-12, higher education, and adult learners across a ten-county region of Pennsylvania.
The Wall Street West funding covers students from the ten county area enrolled in Fall 2008 and Spring, Summer, and Fall 2009.
It will reimburse schools up to $100 for learning materials for each student enrolled in the
blendedSchools.net Language Institute in eleventh grade or higher.
It will also fund an unintrusive,
standardized assessment of student progress in reading, listening, and speaking the language.
Download the press release of the award here.
For more information about the grant, contact
Learn more about Wall Street West at http://www.wallstreetwest.org
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Part 1 of 3: The Wall Street West grant to the BSN Language Institute - length 4:46 min
Part 2 of 3: Why modern global languages are critical for schools to offer - length 8:10 min
Part 3 of 3: The BSN Language Institute and how it delivers effective online instruction - length 9:55 min
Video clip of live Arabic I class in Elluminate Web conference system - length 2:00 min
This program is funded in part by a Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.