{"id":9741,"date":"2017-04-10T06:01:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T10:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9741"},"modified":"2017-04-09T18:44:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T22:44:36","slug":"a-new-haitian-creole-english-elementary-school-opens-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/04\/10\/a-new-haitian-creole-english-elementary-school-opens-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Haitian Creole-English elementary school opens in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty member <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/degraff\/\">Michel DeGraff<\/a>\u00a0shares with us the news of the opening of the first dual-language Haitian Creole-English elementary school in Boston, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2017\/04\/how-discrimination-nearly-prevented-a-dual-language-program-in-boston\/522174\/?utm_source=atltw\">as reported in The Atlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this is a great example of linguistics and education for social justice&#8212;-and an antidote against &#8220;othering&#8221; in our political era. I particularly like these\u00a0headlines from the Atlantic: \u00a0&#8221;Dual-language programs universally focus on both language and culture, giving students who come from that given culture an opportunity to see their own\u00a0histories prioritized by their schools and giving other students an opportunity to develop a deep appreciation for people who are different from them.&#8221;&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty member Michel DeGraff\u00a0shares with us the news of the opening of the first dual-language Haitian Creole-English elementary school in Boston, as reported in The Atlantic: &#8220;I think this is a great example of linguistics and education for social justice&#8212;-and an antidote against &#8220;othering&#8221; in our political era. I particularly like these\u00a0headlines from the Atlantic: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9741","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\/9741","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9744,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}