December 21, 2001
Colleges Scramble to Offer Online Courses in Pashto
Driven by the war in Afghanistan, instructors at four colleges are scrambling to offer traditional and distance-education courses in Pashto, a language virtually untaught in the United States but spoken by more than 20 million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pashto is also the primary language of the Taliban.
Nova Southeastern University is developing its own distance-education course in Pashto, the University of Pennsylvania has added a classroom course to its schedule, and
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