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...mother of the confessed assassin says she is his mother "only in body" and is appalled by what her son did. Geula Amir, a kindergarten teacher in Herzliya, just north of Tel Aviv, told Israel TV that she and her husband raised their son Yigal to respect life. "Shlomo and I have been teaching (our children) love, tolerance, respect," she said. "Today he (Yigal) is not mine. It will stay with me to the grave - the pain and the fear about what can happen to a human being whom you have raised and ... given the very best basis possible." "This...
...test scores that don't go up, dilapidated furniture in the classrooms, an utter lack of technology, outmoded library methods and nonexistent science labs," Knopp said. "I give the district two of my most precious resources every day, my fourth grade daughter and my kindergarten son. I'm not sure the district does the same...
...least some non-English-speaking children. One in six U.S. teachers has non-English speakers in the classroom. In Columbus Junction, Iowa, where a third of the students are the offspring of Hispanic pork packers, principal Becky Furlong fears that federal budget cuts will wipe out her bilingual kindergarten. Meanwhile, at the elementary school in De Queen, Arkansas, principal Cindy Hale has no plans to teach the Latino children of local poultry workers--now a quarter of her students--in Spanish. "The quicker they adapt to speaking English, the better off they are," she says...
...Public School 1 in New York City's Chinatown, three eight-year--olds--a Hispanic, a Chinese and an African American--last week recited a poem they had written together in Cantonese and English. Patricia Nixon, a Manhattan resident who has sent her third-grader Anita there since kindergarten, boasts that the child can read storefront signs in Chinese and converse in the language. "She has a great opportunity," says Nixon, beaming...
...discovery of the sophisticated cave paintings in the south of France and the announcement that they are the oldest ever found should indeed throw "the entire notion of progressive artistic development into question," as suggested by a French official [SCIENCE, June 19]. Anthropology will remain in the kindergarten of its understanding of man and his works until it comes to grips with the prospect that if the flood of Noah was the one responsible for the sinking of the continent of Atlantis, then the survivors (who may well have been forced to live in caves) were the remnants...