Tag: diversity
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 advance multilingual education and support the development of quality teaching...
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 a realistic and warm portrayal of a diverse home and...
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 in terms of background. Everyone has different experiences throughout their...
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 2021 Healthcare World Languages Index compiled by AMN Languages Services,...
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, which lays out that the responsibility for all functions not...
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 new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Leading and Learning
As debilitating as many of the events of 2020 have been, as we end the year, more recent events...
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 of the country’s libraries due to a complaint about racist...
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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 has served as a driving force behind innovation, art, and...
Rumi in the Language Classroom: Diversity of Knowledge & Teaching
Rumi in the Language Classroom Series Vol 1
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, also known as Mawlana "our master" and more popularly as Rumi,...