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Meeting Language Learners’ Needs Does NOT Count as DEI
Leigh Mingle and Conor P. Williams show how anti-DEI legislation supports the provision of specific education designed for multilingual learners “When a number of flute players are equal in their art, there is no reason why those of them who are better born should have better flutes given to them…the superior instrument should be reserved for him who is the superior artist.”-Aristotle, The Politics, Book III It’s an old insight in the Western intellectual tradition, that justice—or fairness—is about giving people what they deserve. To update Aristotle a bit: if you give a fancy cello to Yo-Yo Ma, you’ll get