<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>UNESCO is currently seeking input for its Futures of Education initiatives.  It is inviting public commentaries of up to 1000 words on priorities for education.  While UNESCO has been an advocate for multilingualism in education, it is also noteworthy that language development and multilingual education is entirely absent from the UN Sustainable Development Goal on Quality Education (<a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal4">SDG 4</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone who would like to submit a statement to UNESCO about educational priorities for the future can so so here:</div><div><a href="https://en.unesco.org/futuresofeducation/get-involved/your-view-futures-education">https://en.unesco.org/futuresofeducation/get-involved/your-view-futures-education</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Francis</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div><font size="2"><b>Francis M. Hult, PhD, FRGS</b> </font><font size="2"><span>|</span></font><b> </b>Professor</div><div>Department of Education</div><div>University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)</div><div><br></div><div>Editor, <a href="https://www.springer.com/series/5894" target="_blank">Educational Linguistics Book Series</a> <br></div><div>Co-Editor, <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/16644" target="_blank">Contributions to the Sociology of Language Book Series</a></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://education.umbc.edu/faculty-list/francis-m-hult/" target="_blank">Web Profile</a> <span>|</span> <a href="http://umbc.academia.edu/FrancisMHult" target="_blank">Academia.edu</a> | <a href="http://tesol.umbc.edu/" target="_blank">TESOL@UMBC</a></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1fisFF2r5HmuH2StP__rWJ0Um428jss1K&revid=0B3gZQJj4wrwIcGR6Yzc5a1VuQ1NGUExQZkJpL0ZJb2xrUkgwPQ" width="62" height="96"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>