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...Classroom teachers are sharply divided on the effectiveness of bilingual education. Research on the subject is hampered by the hodgepodge of programs adopted by local school districts, the inconsistent testing of bilingual 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...
...predicts, "we'll have more success at the secondary level." Armando Vallejo, director of the Casa de la Raza, the community center that housed the alternative academy set up by the boycotters, retorts that abolishing bilingual classes amounts to "cultural genocide...Kids sit in the back of the classroom for a couple of years without understanding, and they get disillusioned. That's when they join gangs...
There are no obvious answers in this case, but there are a host of allegations and a great deal of what lawyers might term circumstantial evidence floating around Nesson's Law School classroom. Nesson is the first to admit the ambiguity of the evidence without appropriate knowledge of the other side of the story. He publicly questions whether he can believe Berkowitz and emphasizes the need to talk to others for fear of violating somethings called Rule 11, which calls on lawyers to conduct a reasonable inquiry into the facts of a case before submitting papers to a court...
...living, the report said, should continue into advanced training, which can last up to a year. The smallest units in basic training, consisting of about 60 recruits, should be all men or all women to eliminate sexual distractions and to build true esprit de corps. Most field exercises and classroom instruction--a total of about 60% of all activity--would remain coed...
Outside of the classroom, Donoghue says he enjoys performing in a band...