Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Drawing support partcularly from members of the Hispanic and Haitian communities, she is banking on votes from the 20 percent of Cambridge residents who live in non-English speaking households. But she will have trouble drawing votes from a demographic group that in the past has had a lower percentage...
"The United States is a cultural plurality," Corrada said, adding that statehood would not lead to a loss of the island's Hispanic culture.
A recent study by the National Assessment of Educational programs, funded by the Department of Education, concluded that bilingual education is partly responsible for the improvement of reading skills among Hispanic groups. Opponents of the programs, however, maintain that bilingual instruction promotes school separatism, hinders fluency in English, and is...
Harvard student volunteers will instruct approximately one hundred Hispanic and Indo-Chinese refugees who live in East Boston as part of the English as a Second Language program.
The school, which operates out of the Holy Redeemer Rectory in East Boston, was founded a year ago with the help of Chris Turvey '83. The language program is designed to teach refugee students, approximately 70 percent of whom are Hispanic and 30 percent of whom are Indo-Chinese.