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English as lingua franca gives Singapore a fighting chance | Features | Malay Mail Online - 0 views

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  • Adopting the international language of business, diplomacy, and science and technology was about the only way this resource-less tiny island could guarantee its survival after losing its economic hinterland in Malaysia. Unemployment was at 14 per cent and rising.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Main article, ¶2
  • Just as importantly, picking this race-neutral language demonstrated his government’s anti-communalistic stance, helping to keep the peace in a newborn nation made up of a polyglot-settler populace who had struggled for years with racial and religious strife.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Main article, ¶4
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For the sake of building “a community that feels together”, Lee pushed through the bilingualism policy in 1966. All students had to learn their “mother tongue”, Mandarin, Malay or Tamil, depending on their race, as a second language, and this became a compulsory and critical examination subject in 1969.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Bilingualism, ¶1
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But the various initiatives Lee rolled out in subsequent years to put proficiency in mother tongue on par with that in English were to divide opinions, especially among the Chinese, even up to the present. Indeed, he described bilingualism in 2004 as the “most difficult” policy he had had to implement.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Imperfect implementation, ¶1
  • Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
     
    This article recap's policies that made English a national language of education and made other official languages required second languages.
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Abe Fellowship - Fellowships & Grants - Social Science Research Council - 0 views

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    This page provides an overview of the Abe Fellowship Program, its purpose and research agenda: "The Abe Fellowship Program Committee seeks applications for research explicitly focused on policy-relevant and contemporary issues with a comparative or transnational perspective that draw the study of the United States and Japan into wider disciplinary or theoretical debates" (Policy-Relevant, Contemporary, and Comparative or Transnational Research, ¶2) from eligible candidates every year by September 1st.
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Putnam (2001) on social capital - 0 views

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    "This paper starts with a discussion of definitions of social capital, then turns to issues in measurement, and finally, presents some evidence on the consequences of social capital" (¶ 1 [PDF]). Putnam, R. (2001). Social capital: Measurement and consequences. Canadian Journal of Policy Research, 2(1), 41-51. Retrieved from https://search.oecd.org/edu/innovation-education/1825848.pdf
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About the OECD - OECD - 0 views

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    "The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world."
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http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002437/243713e.pdf - 0 views

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    "This policy paper, released for International Mother Language Day, argues that being taught in a language other than their own can negatively impact children's learning. It shows the importance of teacher training and inclusive supporting materials to improve the learning experience of these children, and provide them with a resilient path of achievement in life" (¶3).
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NCEE | Empowered Educators - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 21 Jul 17
     
    "_Empowered Educators_ is a landmark, international comparative study of teacher and teaching quality in the world's top-performing education systems" (How are they doing it? ¶2).
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Climate Action Tracker [Home] - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 16 Mar 15
     
    "The 'Climate Action Tracker' is an independent science-based assessment, which tracks the emission commitments and actions of countries. The website provides an up-to-date assessment of individual national pledges and currently implemented policy to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions" (deck, 2015.03.16).
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