The Academy of Educational Development (AED) is pleased to provide you with a copy of the solicitation and application guidelines for a new program under the National Security Education Program's (NSEP) National Flagship Language Initiative. AED considers it a distinct pleasure to serve as the administrative agent for this important effort.

NSEP was created by Congress in 1991 to address the need to increase the ability of Americans to communicate and compete globally by knowing other languages and cultures of other countries. NSEP embodies a recognition that the scope of national security has expanded to include not only the traditional concerns of protecting and promoting American well-being, but also the new challenges of a global society, including sustainable development, environmental degradation, global disease and hunger, population growth and migration, and economic competitiveness.

The National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI) Program is designed to address the vital need for more advanced skills in languages critical to U.S. national security. NFLI has already successfully launched comprehensive programs of instruction in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin) and Korean as well as an overseas immersion program in Russian.

We hope through this solicitation to identify and invest in a Chinese pilot program that models long sequences of instruction in a language critical to our national interest. The Chinese K-16 Pipeline Project will focus on the development of an articulated K-16 student pipeline with the goal of graduating linguistically and culturally competent students.

Attached [PDF file, 271 KB] please find the document referenced above. This document is in PDF; please let us know if you have difficulty opening it so that we may provide you with a hard copy of it.

Sincerely,

Academy for Educational Development
National Security Education Program
National Flagship Language Initiative
1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009