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...clarify a bit. I went to an all-girls school from seventh through 12th grade. My school was free from any biases about how girls study, learn or think--although we were expected to do as much of all three as possible. My classmates and I once told our math teacher that she shouldn't push us so hard in calculus--after all, math is a "male" subject. She laughed and told us that we had to do our homework anyway...
...Manning, however, the field of science offered a way around racial prejudice. "One of the things I liked about math," he said, "was that no one could play with my grade...
...City's controversial "Children of the Rainbow" curriculum and Portland, Oregon's baseline essays, which aim to reduce the perceived Eurocentric bias of U.S. education. The ideological debate about multicultural education, brewing for years on college campuses, does not seem to have leached into primary and secondary schools, where math, science, geography, etc., are still regarded as important. Nonetheless, vexing but essential questions prevail: How are students who know no English to be taught? Must they, in the process, sacrifice their ethnic or cultural heritage...
...plunged immediately into intensive E.S.L. (English as a Second Language) instruction; the idea is to bring them up to the proficiency of native speakers at their grade level and get them into mainstream classes as quickly as possible. The other, bilingual, approach allows students to take courses such as math and history in their own language while devoting a certain amount of time each day to learning English. Once the new language has been mastered, the students can translate and build upon their earlier, non-English instruction...
...many communities cannot afford or attract qualified bilingual teachers in all -- or any -- of the subjects students may need. Says Gloria McDonell, director of the Fairfax County E.S.L. program: "We don't teach bilingual education because it's impractical. It's hard to find someone who can teach math in Korean...