But it said foreign language teaching in public elementary and middle schools dropped sharply in recent years.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Hanle says the focus is on offering special programs for teachers at middle schools and high schools because that's when the students start to lose interest in studying science.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Daniel Pipes, a conservative Mideast historian who runs the Middle East Forum and Campus Watch websites, he says a number of private Islamic schools in America offer their students a curriculum laced with extremist content.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12