Word: leps
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Californians. The so-called "English for the Children" initiative would largely scrap bilingual education in public schools and replace it with a one-year long English immersion program. The initiative is an attempt to deal with a monolithic educational system that is not sufficiently servicing the limited English proficient (LEP) students it claims to help. (The program at present is so convoluted, it puts the Core to shame.) Unfortunately, the proposed alternative is no less monolithic and carries with it undertones of racism and anti-immigrant bias to boot. Although it is clear that the existing system is misguided...
...proposed initiative running strongly across all ethnic groups--including 66 percent of Latino voters. The high percentage of supporters among the Latino community is significant, given that the Latino students are the ones who will be most affected by this measure, making up nearly 70 percent of LEP students. Essentially, no one supports the existing bilingual education system. United States Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) went on the record saying that bilingual education "is not working," although she has no position on the proposed ballot measure...
...nature of the bilingual education system as it stands. Yet the most comprehensive review of research on bilingual education, conducted by the National Research Council, found that native-language instruction can be helpful. Their prevailing finding was that different communities and individual school districts require specialized systems of educating LEP students...
There are no doubt plenty of frontiers left for CERN to push back. Though LEP does not appear to be powerful enough to find the top quark, the "clean" electron-positron collisions could reveal many other exotic phenomena. One long shot is the much-sought Higgs boson, named for British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, one of the first to recognize its importance. According to some theories, the Higgs boson is what gives all particles their mass. The idea is that everything in the universe is awash in a seaof Higgs bosons, and particles acquire their mass by swimming through this...
...keep finding new answers, Rubbia is determined to improve CERN's technology. He plans to boost LEP's power 50% in the next year or two. CERN is also trying to persuade its member nations to put up the money to build a proton-proton collider in the same tunnel with LEP. Called the large had ron collider, it would be four times as powerful as the Tevatron and almost half as forceful as the proposed superconducting supercollider in Texas. Rubbia thinks he can finish the LHC several years ahead of the SSC and thus beat the Americans to many...