Thursday, November 25, 2010

Fremont pioneers Arabic immersion



The country's first public K-12 Arabic immersion program has launched this year in Fremont, CA. FAME Public Charter School started a dual English/Arabic immersion program at the kindergarten level, and hopes to add a grade every year, to meet the growing demand for bilinguals, and particularly, Arabic speakers. Here's a report I filed on this program for PRI's The World.

Listen here.