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...handles language. While some countries expect their immigrant students to learn in classes taught in the host language, others combine regular classes with supplementary host-language lessons. Sweden does one better. By law, if there are at least five students from the same country in one district, they have the right to be taught in their native tongue. "And that is a very powerful way to have children value their own cultures, rather than just being confronted with complete novelty," says Schleicher. The effects are subtle but promising. While unemployment among foreign-born citizens in Sweden is still high (around...
...when the first sign appeared: From now on we will be here every Thursday, always at 4 p.m. - whether there is sun, rain or snow. We want to start a children's group and would like you to participate! The meeting spot was a playground in Cologne's Chorweiler district, whose high-rise blocks became home to many of the migrants that the Ford Motor Co. recruited into Germany in the '70s. Of Chorweiler's 80,000 residents, 60% have immigrant backgrounds and a third are on welfare. Lale Akgün, a psychotherapist and M.P., knew that the best...
What began as a routine Cambridge School Committee meeting last night developed into a battle over whether the district should give schools more money to spend on broadly defined improvement measures. A motion put forward by rookie committee members Patricia M. Nolan ’80 and Luc Schuster recommended that Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn reallocate approximately $1.5 million of the district’s 2007-2008 budget to the school improvement funds of Cambridge’s 13 public schools. “This is crazy, it’s like ‘Groundhog...
...seat were New Orleans Police Department superintendent Warren Riley and New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan, whose respective departments have lately been at odds over how to deal with the city's post-Hurricane Katrina crime wave. In 2006, even with a drastically reduced population, New Orleans had 161 murders, four times the national average. In the first 10 days of 2007, at least eight people were killed...
...Attrition in his department is so severe, Jordan said, that this month's new assistant district attorney is likely to be next month's senior employee. And in what sounded to many in the council chambers like a version of the-dog-ate-my-homework excuse, Jordan testified that pre- Katrina evidence - salvaged, cleaned up and stored in a criminal court basement - is now being tampered with by rats. "Apparently, the rodent problem over at the basement is very serious at this time," he said dryly, to a few groans and chuckles from the assembled crowd...