{"id":5069,"date":"2026-08-09T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:40:27","slug":"dont-give-up-on-foreign-language-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5069","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t give up on foreign language education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fordhaminstitute.org\/national\/commentary\/dont-give-foreign-language-education\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Don\u2019t give up on foreign language education\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fordhaminstitute.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/featured_image_size\/public\/2026-08\/apa-8-3-26_0.jpg?itok=D3lAwsUC\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">fordhaminstitute.org<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Don\u2019t give up on foreign language education<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">In a recent edition of his SCHOOLED newsletter, Mike Petrilli called on U.S. high schools to stop pretending to teach foreign languages. Who decides whether they are taught at all?<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educacion","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5070,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}