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...Sweden is top of the class when it comes to bridging the learning gap between its immigrants and native Swedes, and some of the reason for that turns on how it handles language. While some countries expect their immigrant students to learn in classes taught in the host language, others combine regular classes with supplementary host-language lessons. Sweden does one better. By law, if there are at least five students from the same country in one district, they have the right to be taught in their native tongue. "And that is a very powerful way to have children value...
...Aynur Erisir, a Kurdish Turk who volunteers for the project. "Do you say 'Hi' to your neighbor, or not? Do you smile or not? You don't know their cultures and customs." So each week, women bring their children to meet at an adventure playground, where one community plays host and teaches the others about its culture...
...Right (a book whose subtitle cued Fox News to sue him, unsuccessfully of course, for appropriating the channel's catchphrase) and The Truth, With Jokes. In 2004 his passion to mobilize progressives against Bush's war, and for the election of a Democratic President, landed him the job as host of a daily, three-hour talk show on the new liberal network Air America Radio, where - for a time, and in a few markets, among certain demographics - he got higher ratings than Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly...
...Franken could have made millions more writing books and giving speeches than he did as a talk-show host - especially for a network that often didn't pay his back salary. But he had been startled to learn that 21% of Americans got most of their news from talk radio, which at the time was overwhelmingly right-wing. "I didn't want to sit on the sidelines," he said today, "and I believed Air America could make a difference...
...Crimson needs just one point out of its weekend matchups at Bright Hockey Center with Yale and Brown to avoid the possibility of a fourth-place finish. In the event of a three seed, Harvard would host either Yale or Clarkson in a quarterfinal best-of-three series. Dartmouth, as the league’s regular-season champ, will host the conference tourney’s final rounds, March...