Word: classroom
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...school has an average of 34 students per classroom, and we spend $3000 to $4000 per child. But I've met colleagues from affluent public schools where there are 18 students per teacher and $8000 is spent per child." She says...
Bilingual learning, no longer just an optional classroom service, has become a fundamental issue of public policy. "It's cultural, it's social, it's political," says Robert Calfee, professor of education and psychology at Stanford University. Nationally, by some estimates, 3.6 million school-age youngsters are rated as LEPs, 80% of them Hispanic. The voting bloc represented by their parents has generated congressional support for expanding bilingualism into cultural maintenance. Even the White House is gun-shy about attacking the concept too vehemently, although the Administration considers it both inappropriate and wasteful...
...slim, smiling Quoc Cong Tran, 16, who arrived at a San Francisco high school from Viet Nam six months ago, language instruction means a minimum of short-term help in classroom Vietnamese, while he loads up on English in courses called English as a second language. "My future, I choose American," says Quoc...
Simon Daughert, a local eleven-year-old with copper hair and a bespectacled, scholarly expression, allowed that he had been known to fly a plane or two in the classroom, and that he was skipping school to watch the Friday morning finale of the paper-plane contest. "I was going to be a chemist," he said wistfully, "but seeing all these neat designs is making me think about aerospace...
...link what I am talking about with musical themes," says Cox. "Students associate what I am saying with some other dimension of the brain," Cox adds, explaining that students tend to remember facts by association. "I play the theme again, as students come into the classroom, and it gets them remembering...