Word: mainstream
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...whose number may reach 2 million. In fact, comments by the new queen on ASL and deaf pedagogy may make her controversial, in a community where linguistics and education are issues more fraught than those of religion, money or sex. Should the deaf emulate her triumphant plunge into the mainstream? Can they...
Only a minority of institutions practice pure oralism anymore; but a babel of challenges to ASL remain. Mainstreaming, the widespread and generally salutary policy of removing students with disabilities from special schools and seeding them through regular classes, may be counterproductive for the deaf. They cannot be expected simply to "pick up" English from their new classmates; and yet removing them from an all-deaf environment may prevent them from picking up ASL. Northeastern's Lane talks grimly of their "drowning in the mainstream." Total communication, which asked teachers to sign ASL and speak English simultaneously, although once popular, seems...
Indeed, linguistic politics interest her far less than her own, very mainstream motivational program, called STARS because it has five points ("positive attitude," "a dream," "hard work," "knowing your problems but not letting them master you" and "a support team"). The system has already been introduced in a Birmingham-area school. In fact, the acounting major is currently considering a career change: "Maybe I'll be a math teacher or a counselor, so that I could see young people every...
...black and minority men and women to vote Republican -- and give them a reason to vote Republican." However laudable, that's not a message to win the hearts of the mostly white and conservative Republican faithful who vote in the primaries. "His cultural politics are out of the Republican mainstream," says one party strategist. "And his economics are out of the Democratic mainstream...
...decision, most likely intended as an attempt to entrench itself within the mainstream of the Law School community, was a tough and controversial one that many BLSA members saw as a step towards increased campus recognition...