Happy and healthy New Year to you and yours from the team, the advisory council and the board of directors of The Center for the Advancement of Languages, Education, and Communities.

On October 2, CALEC President Fabrice Jaumont, PhD joined Council Member Ben Kallos, French Consul Jérémie Robert, Community Education Council President Maud Maron, parents, teachers, and school administrators for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate two new French dual language classes that have opened at the District 2 Pre-K Center located at 355 East 76th Street in…
Read more

When asked if the story—her story—depicted in the recently published memoir and ode to the immigrant experience, Immigrant Dreams, created in her a feeling of solidarity and connection to the immigrants of today, Barbara Goldowsky responds, “Absolutely.” Continue reading here.

Great article by Del Mar Times about Deana Sobel Lederman’s trilogy, Rainbows, Masks and Ice Cream, and the efforts led by CALEC’s TBR Books program to make Deana’s books available in a number of languages. Read more: https://www.delmartimes.net/art/story/2020-07-23/local-cartoonist-publishes-picture-books

In the 20th and 21st centuries, it is often the United States that is cited as the country most effective at engaging in cultural diplomacy. Or, the U.S. is touted as a major exporter of “soft power” to the rest of the world. But, in Jane Flatau Ross’ Two Centuries of French Education in New…
Read more

Catherine Remy interviews Aneesha Jacko who accepted to tell her more about the opening of a new French dual-language pre-K program in New York’s Upper East Side. Read more on NewYorkinFrench.

Andrew Palmacci recently sat down for a Zoom conversation with authors Agathe Laurent and Sabine Landolt to hear about the making of their new book, Can We Agree to Disagree?, which tackles the challenges, complexities and, yes, struggles of Americans working with the French, and vice-versa, in companies in both countries. Its format is to…
Read more