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Wheaton, though short of Ph.D.s in some departments, is strong on dedicated teaching. The college excels in math and science. Among the faculty stars is Physicist Howard H. Claassen, part of the three-man team that synthesized a new chemical compound, xenon tetrafluoride, from an inert element. Other points of pride: study tours abroad (one aimed at combatting hunger) and a collection on the work of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers and other Christian writers...
...group is known as the National University Consortium, and so far it has enrolled an experimental group of approximately 200 students, many of them working adults with some previous college credits. N.U.C.'s pilot semester offers only three courses: an introduction to college-level math, the culture, politics and religion of the early Roman Empire, and a survey of systems management. Degrees are offered in humanities, technology and management, behavioral and social sciences. Students with no previous college credits will need a minimum of six years to earn a B.A. or B.S. degree...
...Miguel, 8, a student at the 91% Mexican American Briscoe Elementary School on Houston's sweltering east side, such easy leaps from language to language are an everyday matter. In his bilingual third-grade class, Miguel takes science, math and language arts in both English and Spanish, his native tongue. Typically, a one-hour science lesson is taught one day in English. The next day the teacher covers the same material, but in Spanish. Ideally, after two or three years of this bilingual barrage, Miguel will master enough English to do all his classwork in that language...
...California-based American Institutes for Research. After studying 11,500 students over two years, researchers found that children in bilingual programs did no better at learning English or anything else than non-English-speaking students thrust into regular classes-except for a slight edge in elementary math. Proponents of bilingualism, including Hufstedler, regard the report not only as inadequate but out of date. Says Rudolph Troike, director of the office of multicultural bilingual education at the University of Illinois: "The payoff of bilingual education doesn't show up until the fifth or sixth year of instruction." Most critics wonder...
...firm ground. Arrested for distributing antigovernment literature in 1974, Raja'i is said by fellow inmates to have begged for mercy when tortured by SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. "His behavior at the time was certainly not heroic," notes one former prisoner. Students in his math classes at the Kamal Islamic high school in Tehran describe Raja'i as "inflexible" and "humorless," qualities that he appears to have brought with him into political life. He showed an awesome highhandedness as Minister of Education, for example, by disbanding the entire provincial school system in the rebellious western...