Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SUNNY SUBURBAN SPRAWL OF WESTMINSTER, California, a city of 72,000 southeast of Los Angeles, the first-grade classrooms of the Neomia B. Willmore School offer two distinct recipes for the American melting pot. In Room B-3, an English-immersion class, teacher Judy Nguyen plinks on the piano. Winsome, if off-key, her 29 charges launch into "My country 'tis of thee," fading away uncertainly as they reach the line "Land of the Pilgrims' pride." About half the children are native Vietnamese speakers; nine are Hispanic. But the book box holds the Berenstain Bears and Dr. Seuss; cheery posters...
...English-speaking students over 13 years. Although states such as Massachusetts and Illinois now push students out of bilingual classes within three years, the researchers found that children who had six years of bilingual education in well-designed programs performed far better on standardized English tests in 11th grade. Even with bilingual classroom aides and esl training, children who are plunged into an English environment before they are fluent "are just left out of the discussion in their mainstream classes," according to Professor Virginia Collier. "It shows up in the long term, when the academic going gets tough...
More likely, it appears that the demonstrators were simply players in a drama constructed by Joshua Oppenheimer '96-'97, a leader of SOS. As a special concentrator in Performance, Activism and Cultural Studies, Mr. Oppenheimer may be viewing this as his senior thesis. We give him an C- (with grade inflation...
...that an abominable idea, an idea we have seen with adults. That failed, and now he wants to try it with children? Good grief!" He cites the description in Goleman's book of an experimental program at the Nueva Learning Center in San Francisco. In one scene, two fifth-grade boys start to argue over the rules of an exercise, and the teacher breaks in to ask them to talk about what they're feeling. "I appreciate the way you're being assertive in talking with Tucker," she says to one student. "You're not attacking." This strikes McHugh...
...Getting into law school is very quantitative," he said, adding that the applicant's grade point average and LSAT scores are often the most important factors in admissions...