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Asylum Process Hampered by Lack of Linguistic Diversity

The Center for American Progress released a report on the importance ofproviding meaningful language access to those seeking asylum in the US in orderto...

Loss of Language Diversity Accelerating

There’s an ongoing crisis in the field of...

Language Diversity at Risk

New research accompanying the launch of a grammar database, has revealed a potential loss of significant, global linguistic diversity. Postdoctoral researcher Hedvig Skirgård and Associate...

UNESCO Sees Role of EdTech in Multilingual Learning

The theme of last month’s International Mother Language Day, “Using technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities,” raised the potential of technology to...

High School Student Pens Children’s Book Celebrating Diversity

Surayyah “RayRay” Fofana, a 16-year-old high school student from New Jersey, has published her first book, RayRay Paints a Self-Portrait, to share with the world...

Teacher, Influencer, Developer

Diversity has become a more common topic, especially at work. It is looked at not only in terms of race and gender but also...

Increased Linguistic Diversity Needed in U.S. Health Care

More than 50 languages other than English are commonly used in daily encounters between patients and healthcare providers in the U.S., according to the...

Rebuilding a Diverse Edustructure

For some Americans, the federal government investing a single dime in education is considered an overreach of power and an insult to the Constitution,...

Linguistic Diversity Declines in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea—frequently heralded as the most linguistically diverse place in the entire world—is in the middle of a language crisis. According to a...

Leading and Learning

As debilitating as many of the events of 2020...

Singapore Removes Racist Chinese-language Book

Singapore publisher Marshall Cavendish Education has apologized for any misunderstanding caused to readers after its Chinese-language children’s book Who Wins? was removed from all...

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We are at a critical point in human history where much of our cultural diversity is in danger of disappearing forever. This diversity, which...
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