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Celebrating 100 years of PSMLA!

100 Years of PSMLA: A glance into the archives

    The 1930 PSMLA meeting in Williamsport “Dr. Henry Klonower, Director of Teachers’ Certification Bureau in Harrisburg, addressed the meeting, saying that the MLA was the first organized group to recommend higher standards for teacher certification (PSMLA had requested requiring of 24 credits instead of 12). 

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Celebrating 100 years of PSMLA!

At the 1927 PSMLA meeting, “Mr. William Hurwitz, of Philadelphia, offered the following answer to the question ‘Where is the value of organizing teachers of foreign languages?’: 

To protect ourselves against the great onslaught of materialism from all sides; to combat wrong conceptions of education; to hold our own in order to teach our pupils to see the value of, and to love the foreigner in our country; and so to combat racial hatred and prejudice, and above all, to improve international relations.”

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100 Years of PSMLA: A glance into the archives

Celebrating 100 years of PSMLA!

Some things haven’t changed much….