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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

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I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective. Adults who were previously dependent on their children could now take the lead as confident facilitators.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. Grants come from community foundations, small local family foundations, local businesses. Whereas formal organizations have a harder time facilitating a shared sense of space and events.

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