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With Title VI support gone, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will end Filipino language instruction and restructure others ...

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Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

UMass is moving to terminate the Four-Skilled Arabic program following the closure of the Five College Consortium LLC Arabic ...

New research published in Neuropsychologia provides evidence that adults with dyslexia process visual information differently ...