React: Reducing the Educational Achievement Gap through Community-led Technology

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The React project aims to bridge the educational achievement gap in South Africa by leveraging community collaboration and human language technologies to measure and strengthen early language development in children aged 0 to 3 years. It focuses on developing culturally relevant, scientifically grounded, and community-driven language-strengthening systems initially for isiXhosa and isiZulu languages, with plans to scale to other South African languages. The project involves multidisciplinary collaboration and aims to empower families and communities through accessible language development tools and digital resources.