Word: explainer
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...more than ever, such initiative is paramount. In 2002, bilingual education was banned, making it illegal to teach students in a language other than English. In its place, English-immersion was promoted, in which a student’s native language can be used only to help explain complex ideas. Although such a program may be viable in theory, when a child cannot understand the words on the whiteboard, he or she is unlikely to do well on standardized tests. A monolingual teacher can do little to help, and frustration may only exacerbate the situation. Bilingual teachers can help remove...
...street from Pinocchio’s, plotting his defense strategy when drunk students might send Molotov cocktails through his window on a Saturday night, Mayer has met with individual students, held a public forum, and, best of all, started a blog—harvarddining.blogspot.com—to explain menu changes and address students’ concerns on a daily basis...
...this helps to explain why he was named today as the 2008 winner of the Pritzker Prize, which at this point is something like the knighthood of architecture. It was always only a matter of time before the Pritzker Foundation said "Arise, Sir Jean" to Nouvel, 62, who for decades has been one of the most closely followed architects in the world. Born in Fumel, a town in southwestern France, to parents who were both schoolteachers, he was already famous within the profession by 1981, when he was just 35, which is youthful in architect years...
...running for parliament as independents, against official candidates. "There is a turnout all over the country of opposition supporters, cheering against Mugabe," says Eldred Masunungure, a professor of political science at the University of Zimbabwe. "They would never have dared [to do so] in the past. I can't explain it. Maybe we've been an abnormal country for so long, when normality comes, it feels abnormal...
...While that may sound like a dramatic increase - and could in part explain why more families today are raising only one child - it's actually not much greater than the U.S. inflation rate over the same time period. But consider what the government figures don't take into account, and the onerous repercussions for families nationwide. Take child care. According to the USDA, parents spend an average of $1,220 to $3,020 on child care and education during each of the first two years, depending on household income. Yet the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies...