Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Parents complain that their children are only being "taught to the test." Teachers complain about the rigidity of the curriculum. Minority groups complain that the tests are inherently biased against minorities since they flunk too many black and Hispanic students, thus unfairly affecting their chances at future success. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education has already filed a suit against the State...
William L. Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology, called the notes for his classes posted on the Versity site "poor...
...abortion and anti-homosexual views not only violate the party's pledge to remain silent on social issues, but would substantially change the party's constituency. Any party that nominates a candidate with such volatile and xenophobic views--Buchanan has said he would support building a wall on the Mexican border--seriously risks banishment to the fringes of American politics...
...moonless night, and Jorge Macias Onate, a Mexican border-police officer, knows he'll be busy as he eases his Dodge Ram along his country's porous border with the U.S. Soon his headlights pick out four scraggly youths preparing to scale the 12-ft.-high steel fence that separates the town of Agua Prieta from Douglas, Ariz. As he slows the pickup, the teenagers scatter like rabbits toward the sagebrush. "Wait! Don't run! We're not here to arrest you," yells Macias. "We want to help you. The problem is on the other side...
DIED. ENRIQUE ALFEREZ, 98, Mexican-born art-deco sculptor and Pancho Villa comrade whose dozens of sculptures decorate New Orleans; in New Orleans. Before moving to America to study art, Alferez served with the revolutionary forces, which he joined...