Word: affections
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...students and a shortage of bilingual teachers and textbooks. For these reasons, only a third of California's students with limited English get any native-language instruction (mainly because of a shortage of bilingual teachers), making it difficult to blame Latinos' scholastic failures on that approach. Does bilingual education affect the 30% dropout rate of Hispanics nationwide--more than double the rate for blacks or whites? Is it related to Santa Barbara's finding that only 11% of its Latino elementary students read English at grade level and only 18% read Spanish at grade level...
...presence of that movie and its message is actually part of the problem for Clinton. Wag the Dog "wouldn't affect whether to go ahead with a strike, but it could affect the type of strike," says TIME's reporter at the U.N., William Dowell. In other words, if the President carpet-bombs Baghdad, he looks like he's trying too hard...
...therefore issue my criticism as a challenge," Campos says, "to continue to report with understanding and depth so that the issues that affect us receive the respect that they deserve...
...Crimson hires its own lawyer, Robert A. Bertsche of Hill and Barlow, and, Epps and Bertsche, a lawsuit against The Crimson would not affect the University. A Graduate Board of Crimson alumni--entirely separate from the University--advises the current editors...
...originated in the Undergraduate Council two years ago to challenge the political turn the council took under the leadership of Robert M. Hyman '98 and Lamelle D. Rawlins '99. "Harvard Students First" means exactly what it says: that the main concern of Harvard students should be problems that solely affect Harvard students...