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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Multilingual Education (MLE) Network Phenomenon: Advocacy and Action for Minoritized Language Communities
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Trudell, Barbara – Multilingual Education, 2014
This article examines a new phenomenon in language activism variously called the multilingual education working group or the multilingual education network, and abbreviated as MLEN. After an analysis of the conceptual and organizational contexts for these activist groups, the six MLENs in existence as of 2013 are described. The groups are then…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Advocacy, Multilingualism, Activism
Re-Examining the Fluctuations in Language in-Education Policies in Post-Independence Ghana
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Ansah, Gladys Nyarko – Multilingual Education, 2014
Language-in-education policy in Ghana has been in a flux since British colonial rule but particularly so after independence. A close examination of post independence language in education policies shows these fluctuating policies have moved from one form of bilingual education policy to another. Many tensions and paradoxes that arise from…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Sociolinguistics, African Languages, Foreign Countries