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Theodore Andersson  

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  • Theodore Andersson was a language professor and visionary who helped initiate the FLES (Foreign Language in Elementary Schools) movement in the 1950s and the bilingual education movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. A lifelong interest in languages and cultures was awakened in his childhood; later, he earned a PhD in romance languages and literatures from Yale. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Andersson, Theodore (1903–1994)]

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