The Complete Curriculum: Ensuring a place for the arts and foreign languages in America’s schools (October 2003). National Association of State Boards of Education.

ISBN: 1-58434-056-8

Curtain, Helena and Carol Ann Dahlberg (2004) Languages and Children Making the Match: New Languages for Young Learners, Grades K-8, Third Edition. Pearson: Boston

ISBN: 0-205-36675-9

Gilzow, Douglas F. and Lucinda E. Branaman (2000). Lessons Learned: Model Early Foreign Language Programs. Center for Applied Linguists: Washington D.C. and CAL, Delta Systems: McHenry, IL.

ISBN: 1-887744-63-0

Available for purchase at: http://calstore.cal.org/store/topics/forlang.aspx

"International Education: Opening Doors to Global Understanding" (March 2005). The State Education Standard, Vol. 6 No. 1. NASBE: Alexandria, VA.

Available online at: http://www.nasbe.org/Standard/index.html

Sacher, Emily (2004). Schools for the Global Age: Promising Practices in International Education. Asia Society: New York.

Semonsky, Carol M. Saunders and Marcia A. Spielberger (2004). Early Language Learning: A Model for Success. Information Age Publishing: Greenwich, CT.

ISBN: 1-59311-082-0

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Publications

http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/pubsales/global_10.html

Planning Curriculum in International Education

http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/pubsales/global_1.html

Planning Curriculum in World Languages

National professional organization of Foreign Language Teachers, Year of Languages

http://www.cal.org/earlylang/front.htm

The ultimate resource for planning a K-8 language program: research, step-by-step process

http://nnell.org/

Focus on K-8 language learning

http://www.cal.org/

National resource center for improving the teaching and learning of languages and cultures

http://www.carla.umn.edu/

Located at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, one of the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI National Language Resource Centers, whose role is to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively.

http://www.nlconference.org/

Read the full text of the white paper, A Call to Action

http://www.govtilr.org/

Federal interagency organization established for the coordination and sharing of information about language-related activities at the Federal level (Defense, CIA, Peace Corps…)

http://www.internationaled.org/home.htm

A World-class Education Community Action Kit offers practical guidelines and resources for communities and state policymakers. Links to statewide initiatives, national coalition, congressional news and grants for international education

http://www.internationaled.org/language.htm

Articles, research, news and resource directory

http://www.askasia.org/administrators/index.htm

Grant ideas, resource center locator, curriculum, staff development…

http://www.du.edu/issa/

Annual national conference, curriculum resources, professional development

http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/0106pufahl.html

I. Pufahl, N. C. Rhodes, & D. Christian (December 2000). ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics: Washington, DC. Purchase at: http://calstore.cal.org/store/topics/forlang.aspx

A discussion of eight core methodologies, strategies, and policies that language educators in other countries consider essential to success and practical recommendations for how these findings can inform U.S. foreign language education policy and practice