Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal government should not require bilingual education, a former cabinet member said yesterday at an Education School conference on provisions for children raised to speak languages other than English...
Chavez now serves as executive director of United States English, a group lobbying for a Constitutional amendment to make English the nation's official language...
While she did not condemn bilingual education--instruction in both English and the speaker's first language--Chavez said it should not be the most important federal program for children who are not comfortable with English...
...Bilingual education should be measured by its results and whether it helps English acquisition and student achievement," the former Reagan Administration official said. Because bilingual education fails to focus on these areas, she said alternatives should be explored...
Professor of English Robert Brustein created the Institute after trying unsuccessfully to establish a graduate dramatics program here for the past eight years. Brustein, who is founding director of both the Yale Repertory Theater and the ART, says that in 1979 he proposed "we bring a theater here and a conservatory." He adds, "But President Bok did not want to consider a conservatory because Harvard had no undergraduate courses in theater for credit...