[Assam] [Iepgraduates-list] IEP Graduate Recognized for his Research on the education of indigenous children in Mexico

[umesh sharma]

it may seem like a no-brainer to most of us who have anyway studied in bi-lingual and tri-lingual or multi-lingual schools - since India is divided in states based of unique languages having different scripts as well.

I studied Hindi and English from pre-school onwards. Hindi got dropped after grade 10 but had to study English even at college -compulsory.- as it is for passing any entrance exam at job/college level in India. In middle school had three years of Sanskrit as well - compulsory third language requirement.

In USA most students seem to take Spanish as a second language , though I have seen students take Japanese, French, German, Latin , Chinese, Korean as well.

www.parijatacademy.org video shows that even elementary scool students study three languages - equal emphasis - English, Assamese and Hindi

Any comments.

Umesh
PS: I never had the pleasure of meeting the award winner though he was student at the same time - perhaps busy in Mexico with his research. Met another doctoral student German Trevino who was a TA for a course I was taking.

"Fernando M. Reimers" <Fernando_Reimers> wrote: Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:39:28 -0500
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Umesh Sharma

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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

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