{"id":1673,"date":"2026-04-05T00:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:23:40","slug":"meeting-language-learners-needs-does-not-count-as-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Language Learners\u2019 Needs Does NOT Count as DEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/languagemagazine.com\/2026\/04\/03\/meeting-language-learners-needs-does-not-count-as-dei\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Meeting Language Learners\u2019 Needs Does NOT Count as DEI\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/teacher_student_pronun-2168405553.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">languagemagazine.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Meeting Language Learners\u2019 Needs Does NOT Count as DEI<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Leigh Mingle and Conor P. Williams show how anti-DEI legislation supports the provision of specific education designed for multilingual learners \u201cWhen 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\u2026the superior instrument should be reserved for him who is the superior artist.\u201d-Aristotle, The Politics, Book III It\u2019s an old insight in the Western intellectual tradition, that justice\u2014or fairness\u2014is about giving people what they deserve. To update Aristotle a bit: if you give a fancy cello to Yo-Yo Ma, you\u2019ll get<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educacion","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}