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...campaign promise to improve America's schools. In a speech this week, the President is expected to unveil a 44-point plan to boost overall standards by the end of the decade. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander has persuaded Bush to call for a new core curriculum in math, the sciences, history and English. To make sure all states meet basic requirements, there would be national testing of every schoolchild in the fourth, eighth and 12th grades. Bush is expected once again to endorse a proposal to give parents a choice of schools for their children and a plan to hold...
...during those younger years, when he was required by law to attend school and learn math, history, and English, Fauth's life involved a lot of juggling; at the end of each school day he returned home to his father, a priest, and a household in which the number one priority was God. His home life mainly involved worship and working on his family's alfalfa farm...
...recently as the new McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism -- take your choice. According to its critics, who include a flock of tenured conservative scholars, multiculturalism aims to toss out what it sees as the Eurocentric bias in education and replace Plato with Ntozake Shange and traditional math with the Yoruba number system. And that's just the beginning. The Jacobins of the multiculturalist movement, who are described derisively as P.C., or politically correct, are said to have launched a campus reign of terror against those who slip and innocently say "freshman" instead of "freshperson," "Indian" instead...
Like most stereotypes, the one about Asian-American student attainment has papered over a very different reality. Four out of every five such students are in public two- or four-year institutions rather than elite universities. And plenty are not particularly good at math or science. At the University of Massachusetts' Boston campus, the majority of 640 Asian-American students work part time to support their families while going to school...
...fact that the best and the brightest among Asian Americans are veering away from programmed patterns of success may be, in fact, another sign that the over-achievers are settling into the mainstream. Of course, Asian Americans will continue to major in math and science in large numbers. But more will do so because they genuinely enjoy the subjects, and others, like Tohoru Masamune, will be freer to choose other paths. "It destabilized my life," he says about his decision to get out of engineering, "but it was an instability that I'm comfortable with." That too is achievement...