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...Mason says she responded to the e-mail and the two began e-mailing regularly...
Before coming to Harvard this year, Rachel I. Mason '99 received an e-mail from a random student in New York who had seen her name in an article about the action she had taken pertaining to proposed government cuts in the National Science Scholarship...
Raphael F. Cardero, a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government said the discussion was misplaced...
Later this year two George Mason University professors will release the largest study ever conducted on bilingual education, comparing the performance of 42,000 non-English-speaking students over 13 years. Although states such as Massachusetts and Illinois now push students out of bilingual classes within three years, the researchers found that children who had six years of bilingual education in well-designed programs performed far better on standardized English tests in 11th grade. Even with bilingual classroom aides and esl training, children who are plunged into an English environment before they are fluent "are just left...
...George Mason study also underscores the value of bilingual education's most avant-garde experiments. The highest achievers were children at "two-way" schools, where English-language children and non-English speakers are mixed together, with half the curriculum taught in a foreign language and half taught in English. In Chicago five years ago, there were three such schools teaching in Spanish and English; today there are 20. In the District of Columbia, the Oyster Bilingual Elementary School is a pioneer in two-way education. Its student body is 58% Hispanic, 26% white, 12% black and 4% Asian, and after...