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...Willmore, 78% of the students do not speak English well enough to follow a standard American curriculum. Like thousands of public schools across the country, Willmore faces a dilemma: Should immigrant children be instructed entirely in English? Or should they be taught academic subjects in their native language while gradually learning English? For three decades, researchers have debated the complex cognitive issues. Now, however, arguments have moved beyond pedagogy. Bilingual education is exploding into one of the nation's most divisive political issues, fueled, on one hand, by a backlash against immigration and affirmative action and, on the other...
Marshall sidesteps into a more complicated dilemma involving his wife, a pretty student with whom he is flirting and a colleague charged with sexual abuse. Everyone in the novel, needless to say, turns out to be "another you" from the one apparent at the outset. But the narrative, crammed with choppy incident and dialogue, never gathers enough force to power the story. This is Beattie's first novel in five years (she has published one collection of short stories since 1990's Picturing Will), and so a real disappointment. She was an authentic voice of the late 1970s...
...dilemma we face right now is how to retrofit the facility, given the regulatory environment, access codes and the like in a cost-effective solution," he says.CrimsonRebecca L. BennettMembers of a student Tae Kwon Do class practice in the MAC mezzanine yesterday...
...ETHICAL DILEMMA POSED BY REBOOTING a target country's banking system: If I had a choice between electronically wiping out a retiree's life savings through infowar and taking his grandchild's life on the battlefield, I would opt for the electronic Black Friday. GLENN A. TOLLE Fort Hood, Texas AOL: G Tolle...
...only sensible escape from this logical dilemma is to acknowledge that--pending the arrival of perfect and universal racial justice--the true meaning of civil rights principles does not require either individuals or the government to act in ways that are strictly race neutral. Specifically, and to be crude about it, it is O.K. to favor blacks in ways it is not O.K. to favor whites. To be sure, this is a troubling and potentially perilous conclusion. It does not provide carte blanche for all forms of reverse discrimination. But it is the beginning of any honest debate...