Professor Morford says signers are like English learners whose first language uses a different alphabet.

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The world's most celebrated hyperpolyglot relied on the same tools given to first-year language-learners today.

ECONOMIST: What makes some people learn language after language?

So where universities are building cultures around completion where first-generation college-goers and English-language learners and Pell grant recipients are graduating, we want to use Race to the Top resources to incentivize that behavior.

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