Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LETTERS: Amy Musher (Chief); Gloria J. Hammond (Deputy); Marian Powers (Administration...
LETTERS: Amy Musher (Chief); Gloria J. Hammond (Deputy); Marian Powers (Administration...
LETTERS: Amy Musher (Chief); Gloria J. Hammond (Deputy); Marian Powers (Administration...
...understand the concepts, they can transfer these skills to a second language. I know it works. I've been doing it for 10 years and see the results." But many communities cannot afford or attract qualified bilingual teachers in all -- or any -- of the subjects students may need. Says Gloria McDonell, director of the Fairfax County E.S.L. program: "We don't teach bilingual education because it's impractical. It's hard to find someone who can teach math in Korean...
Culture in America is likely to be spelled these days with a hyphen. Watch it on TV. There's Cuban-American singing star Gloria Estefan in a music video on MTV Latino. See it at the cinema. The film version of The Joy Luck Club, based on the popular novel by Chinese-American author Amy Tan, could be playing nearby. Theater? There's the modern-dance show Griot New York, directed by Jamaican-American choreographer Garth Fagan. Poetry? Buy a book of verse by St. Lucian-born, Nobel-prizewinning poet Derek Walcott, who teaches at Boston University. Painting? New York...