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The meaning of religious freedom came home to me, fittingly enough, by the dawn’s early light, slanting through a dormitory window in China many years ago. I was one of 10 young people spending a summer teaching English as a second language classes at an agricultural college 3,000 miles west of Beijing, in what’s known now as the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region—home to many Muslims and other minorities. It’s not an especially healthy place to be these days for those who take their faith (Muslim or Christian) seriously.

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For years, New Orleans area parents and civil rights groups have fought for access to educational materials — report cards, signage and take-home documents — in languages other than English. It’s a right guaranteed by the federal government, but making sure it’s being applied in practice has been an uphill battle.

Our Voice Nuestra Voz (OVNV), a local group that organizes Hispanic and black families, recently had parent volunteers survey school administrators, English language coordinators and teachers from 70 Orleans Parish charter schools about their language services — for both teaching students English and communicating with parents with limited English proficiency.

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Families want Palo Alto schools to offer Hindi as a foreign language. The school district says it’s complicated.

Arabhi Sundararajan’s daughter, a Gunn High School freshman, travels to a Hindi school in Fremont every Sunday for a three-hour course in the language she’s been learning since kindergarten.

It’s an investment in time and money that the family, which speaks Hindi at home, has decided to make. But they shouldn’t have to, Sundararajan believes.

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I started to write on Medium during the cold March of 2018. Since then, the biggest frustration I’ve continuously experienced is not being able to play with words in English as I fully can in Croatian, which is my native language.

My English grammar sucks. My vocabulary is limited. My sentence structure is pretty rough.

I’ve experimented with a bunch of solutions for this problem: I tried to quit writing, returned to writing in Croatian, I hired an editor to translate my English ramblings into a decent level of eloquence and explored app-editors like Tyrannosaurus and Hemingway. Learn more about this topic by reading on GoodMenProject.

Kenneth Whyte is publisher of Sutherland House Books and founding editor of the National Post. His books include Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, and he writes a weekly newsletter, SHuSH.

When the Conservative Party of Canada begins auditioning new leaders, as it is now, the first hurdle prospects are expected to clear is language. The shapers of elite opinion are firm that anyone aspiring to head the CPC needs to be capably bilingual, and the party agrees.

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This research-based article explores the benefits of a motivational framework for culturally responsive teaching in higher education. To support her study, the author explains how she has experimented and utilized a motivational framework in her classes while teaching English as a second language (ESL) to her students from diverse cultural backgrounds.

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Allow me space in your newspaper to share my views on the introduction of Kiswahili in Namibia and other African countries. Egalitarianism, or equalitarianism, is a school of thought within political philosophy that prioritises equality for all people. Egalitarian doctrines are generally characterised by the idea that all human persons are equal in fundamental worth or moral status. Egalitarianism is the doctrine that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.

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The Member of Parliament for Effutu Constituency, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has called on international Schools to teach local languages of Ghana. In a post on his Facebook timeline, the legal practitioner bemoans the practice whereby international schools teach English, Spanish, Chinese, French and other languages at the expense of Ghanaian languages. Learn more about this topic by reading on PeaceFMOnline. You can follow me on my social medias that are on the homepage.

SANFORD, Fla. — Seminole County teacher Gina Tucker says she knows the influence instructors can have helping students achieve life-long success. She says it is a lesson she learned early on. Tucker was nominated as an A+ teacher by a parent. She teaches English as a second language at Sanford Middle School. She says the best part of her job is seeing her students become successful in her classroom only to go out in the world to do the same.

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The famed scientist Nikola Tesla also electrified others by his fluency in several languages. Multiple language skills helped actress Audrey Hepburn connect with others across the globe as a Goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. She liked to say, “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” Learning a second language can help achieve that.

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