{"id":11035,"date":"2018-04-23T05:56:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T09:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11035"},"modified":"2018-04-22T22:20:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T02:20:22","slug":"bilingual-education-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/04\/23\/bilingual-education-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilingual education in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/degraff\/\">Michel DeGraff<\/a> shares some good news\u00a0about the Dual Language (English\/Haitian Creole) Two-Way Immersion program at the Mattapan Early Elementary School which he has been helping with. The school was recently recognized with the\u00a0<span class=\"\">Phil H. Gordon Legacy Award from EdVestors, a nonprofit focused on improving urban education. The award recognizes\u00a0schools that are leveling the playing field for all students to learn. The Mattapan Early Elementary School was awarded $30,000 to help it grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The full story is available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/local_coverage\/2018\/04\/success_of_language_program_nets_mattapan_elementary_school_30g\">Boston Herald<\/a>. A video presentation about the program at Mattapan Early Elementary is also available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michel.degraff\/posts\/10156384469358872\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel DeGraff shares some good news\u00a0about the Dual Language (English\/Haitian Creole) Two-Way Immersion program at the Mattapan Early Elementary School which he has been helping with. The school was recently recognized with the\u00a0Phil H. Gordon Legacy Award from EdVestors, a nonprofit focused on improving urban education. The award recognizes\u00a0schools that are leveling the playing field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11039,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions\/11039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}