Thursday, March 21, 2013

Dance wants all students to graduate bilingual - baltimoresun.com

Dance wants all students to graduate bilingual - baltimoresun.com: Baltimore County schools Superintendent Dallas Dance plans to issue digital devices to middle- and high-school students and wants all children in the school system to graduate bilingual, believing it will make them globally competitive, he said in the county's first state of the schools address Thursday.

"Earning a Baltimore County public schools diploma needs to have greater meaning," he told a crowd at Valley Mansion in Cockeysville.

The superintendent hopes to see kindergartners learning world languages and older students carrying electronic devices within the next five years, he said in an interview Thursday. He said he's unsure of what type of electronic tools that students would get because technology changes so quickly.