{"id":1689,"date":"2010-09-07T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2010-09-06T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T17:20:12","slug":"degraff-receives-nsf-award-for-work-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/09\/07\/degraff-receives-nsf-award-for-work-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"DeGraff receives NSF grant for work in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michel DeGraff has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to pursue work for Haiti thoughout the academic year 2010&mdash;2011.   He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<P>My NSF project title is: &#8220;Krey\u00f2l-based and technology-enhanced teaching of reading, writing, math and science in Haiti.&#8221;  I will help develop, refine and evaluate innovative Krey\u00f2l-based and technology-enhanced educational materials and methods for Haitian classrooms. These materials and methods will be tested in situ in Haiti.   <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>I will thus be on leave during the year to work on this project, which started earlier this year, especially during trips to Haiti over the Summer.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>This project seems particularly timely in the context of the post-earthquake reconstruction of Haiti&#8217;s school system.   Some of the rationale for it is explained in a couple of articles, in the Boston Globe (in U.S.) and in Le Nouvelliste (Haiti).  Both articles discuss Haiti&#8217;s language barrier:<\/P><\/p>\n<p><UL><br clear='none'\/>\n<LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2010\/06\/16\/language_barrier_in_haiti\/\">http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2010\/06\/16\/language_barrier_in_haiti\/<\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n<\/LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenouvelliste.com\/articleforprint.php?PubID=1&ArticleID=82891\"><br clear='none'\/>\nhttp:\/\/www.lenouvelliste.com\/articleforprint.php?PubID=1&ArticleID=82891<\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n<\/LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<\/UL><br clear='none'\/>\n<P>I hope my NSF project and related efforts will help break down this barrier.<\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P>Congratulations, Michel!<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel DeGraff has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to pursue work for Haiti thoughout the academic year 2010&mdash;2011. He writes: My NSF project title is: &#8220;Krey\u00f2l-based and technology-enhanced teaching of reading, writing, math and science in Haiti.&#8221; I will help develop, refine and evaluate innovative Krey\u00f2l-based and technology-enhanced educational materials and methods for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","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\/1689","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}