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Year after year, bilingual education in public schools has failed America’s students. The classroom is, by far, the most appropriate location to introduce students to American language, history and culture. Bilingual classrooms have served a far different purpose, however. Rather than expose students with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds to English, they serve as impediments to integration into American culture and language...
...properly introduce students to English—and sometimes even the basic concept of academics. Bilingual education in America’s schools should be abolished, and whatever funds currently finance the intensely-fl awed system should go toward funding after-school language programs that would supplement the classroom curriculum...
...English-speaking students need to learn English, but they also need to learn the rest of the high school curriculum so that they can rejoin their classmates in English-speaking classrooms without falling behind. To provide students with high-quality education, bilingual educators need drastically increased resources. Skilled teachers are needed so that classroom size can be reduced; administrative support is needed so that student progress can be monitored more closely; and more counselors should be provided to allow students to make a smooth transfer, both academically and socially, into mainstream classrooms. The ballot initiative would take away resources from...
...main thrust of this project is not for classroom space in the conventional sense, but the history of science department will be gaining an informal seminar room for demonstrations,” said Jeffrey J. Cushman ’69, capital projects manager for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) department of physical resources...
...statistics department will occupy the 1,800 square foot addition on the sixth floor roof. The department will gain new office space for Faculty members and teaching fellows, a better designed classroom and more office and computing space for post-graduate fellows...