Word: correcting
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WHILE PUBLIC OPINION seems polarized between sink-or-swim nostalgics and politically correct diversitarians, serious research increasingly points toward a consensus: children learn English faster and are more likely to excel academically if they are given several years of instruction in their native language first. In a 1991 study endorsed by a National Academy of Sciences research team, David Ramirez, now a professor at California State University, followed 2,000 Latino schoolchildren. "It is a myth that if you want children to learn English, you give them nothing but English," says Ramirez. Both English-immersion and bilingual methods will fail...
...these predictions are correct, then the typical U.S. parish of the future may come to resemble a Protestant-style congregation, a virtual democracy directed and administered by members who also have considerable leeway in determining who will preach and conduct religious services. Those Catholics who now petition for a greater say in the running of their parishes may someday get even more than they asked for, if only by default...
However, the federal government and the saturation of politically correct terms in our culture have stopped the poorest in the African-American community from growing because dependent blacks think they need a helping hand every step of the way to maturity. If you have ever gone to a general store and have seen black welfare recipients--usually black mothers--buying food, you will notice that it is primarily junk food. There are few essential nutrients contained in their diets which most people learn are necessary once they reach adulthood. These members of the African-American community are still stuck...
...this is the case, these students would be correct to point to deficiencies in the curriculum and call upon the administration to answer these concerns. However, they should not call for a new discipline when there is no need...
...have been issuing predictions of impending doom for the past few years without offering any concrete proof. The atmospheric scientists' version of the apocalypse is global warming, a gradual rise in worldwide temperatures caused by man-made gases trapping too much heat from the sun. If the theory is correct, the world could be in for dramatic changes in climate, accompanied by major disruptions to modern society. So far, though, even the experts have had to admit that while the earth has warmed an average of up to 1.1 degree F over the past 100 years, no solid evidence...