Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good to hear all of the different groups get heard, and to know that there is a common ground that we can all stand on," one participant said...
...They have a common direction, which fosters the building of a European home, for it makes the countries closer, more open and creates new opportunities for human contact and an equal exchange...
Speaking to about 40 people in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, Ronald Takaki of the University of California at Berkeley stressed how images of Asian-Americans today are inaccurate when they focus completely on the minority's immigrant past...
...Another common misperception is that of Asian-Americans as "model minorities," the scholar said...
Leslie Rescorla, a Bryn Mawr clinical child psychologist, notes that it is currently common practice for educators to recommend that socially or physically immature children with autumn birthdays enter kindergarten at six, ( rather than five. The practice makes sense, Rescorla says, if parents have special concerns about their child's social development: "If it's interacting, cooperating, playing with others you're worried about, then keeping children in nursery school for another year is good. It's nursery school, not kindergarten, where these important skills are now being learned...