http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/jp1_02.pdf
Newly updated version of dictionary which represents authoritative source for the vocabulary of military affairs. From the Department of Defense, posted by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42482.pdf
Discusses Sections 2 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the key criteria when redistricting of not denying the right to vote or the right to equally participate in the political process to members of a racial or language minority group, and pending legislation and court cases relevant to these matters. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf
Standards developed by state-based groups which have been much in the news because of the shift in emphasis away from fiction and toward nonfiction. From the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acsbr10-10.pdf
This report presents data on the frequency and percentage of the U.S. population aged five and over who spoke a Native North American language at home. Also includes a map of U.S. counties showing the density of residents who spoke a Native North American language. From the Census Bureau
Explores demographic characteristics, citizenship and immigration, family and personal life, education and language, employment and economic well-being, and geographic location of Virginia’s 630,000 Hispanic residents. From the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm79/7991/7991.pdf
British government report on presence of Anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom. Covers Anti-Semitic incidents, discourse, sources of contemporary Anti-Semitism, and Anti-Semitism on campus. Command Paper Cm7991. From the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/acsbr09-19.pdf
National and state level data on the percentage of the U.S. population who spoke a language other than English at home by Hispanic origin and race in 2009. From the Census Bureau
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-10-049/EN/KS-SF-10-049-EN.PDF
Reports that more students at the primary school level are learning a foreign language in 2008 than in 2000 but no progress was made in the number of students learning a foreign language in upper secondary education. English is the most studied of all foreign languages in European schools. From Eurostat