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...hard to see the advantage of splitting them up and sending them to the four winds," explains Arnold Clayton, teacher in the bilingual program...
...both Clayton and Vega, the issue is clear-cut. A majority of the kids in the program face "skill-barriers" as well as language barriers. The idea of the program to help them gain skills that are transferable. "How are you ever going to get a kid to read Shakespeare if he can't read Cervantes," asks Clayton. "The overwhelming majority [of the Spanish-speaking students] can't write a coherent well-punctuated sentence in Spanish...
...mostly Greek, Portugese, Hispanic or Haitian. Today, there are greater instances of "low-incidence languages," with students from Pakistan, India, Africa, China and Vietnam. Consequently, they cannot hold classes in native languages because there is not a significant enough incidence of any one language. The call to create what Clayton terms a "bilingual diaspora" is dangerous...
...season that began with a trip to Lake Placid taken for granted ended with a long, snowy bus ride from Troy. The four seniors on the roster, Clayton Rodgers, Adams, Millar and Storey never experienced a winning year in Cambridge...
...sent Morris through two of their minor league teams, and then two weekends ago, the Devil Rays added him to their roster, making him the oldest major league rookie in nearly three decades. He got his first assignment pitching in relief against the Texas Rangers and struck out Royce Clayton with a 96-m.p.h. fastball. A few days later, he pitched a full inning against the heart of the Anaheim Angels order and retired the side...