Opening Doors Through Language
03/10/10
The attached is a March 8 Washington Post editorial from Maura Pally who is the acting Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Pally discusses the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program, administered by American Councils for International Education and is funded by the U.S. State Department. NSLI-Y will provide 140 scholarships to American high school students to study Russian language in Russia in 2010-2011 with 450 scholarships allocated among other languages. Pally also goes on to stress that "foreign language skills and the inter-cultural awareness they bring pave the way for mutual understanding and better relations".
