The Language Magazine – – Staff Writer 
Just as the campaign for the White House has stepped into high gear, so has the campaign for foreign languages in the U.S. A 2014 Harvard Business Review article, “What’s Your Language Strategy?,” highlighted the importance of foreign language skills as global talent in multinational organizations. With its origins in the 1979 report of the President’s Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies, “Strength through Wisdom: A Critique of U.S. Capability,” which was closely followed by Senator Paul Simon’s “The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis,” the campaign for foreign languages has been part of the scholarly and public conversation for several decades, albeit to different degrees, referred to in the “Languages for All?” final report as the “roller coaster focus on language in the U.S.” depending on the local, national, and international issues of the moment.(more)