Foreign Tongues (Charles Kolb: Huffington Post)
10 May 2012 What do former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Larry Summers have in common? The short answer: other than Ph.D.s and professorships, not very much. But it turns out that they both share an unfortunate skepticism about the importance in American education of studying foreign languages. In the case of Secretary Summers,...