Word: michigans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nationwide, of the 43.6 million children attending public school, some 2.6 million are non-English-speaking--an increase of 76% in the past decade. As new waves of immigrants pour in, conflict grows over how to assimilate them. In New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, the District of Columbia and California, bilingual programs have recently been challenged by parents, teachers and school boards. Three-quarters of the young newcomers live in five states: California, New York, Florida, Texas and Illinois. Nonetheless, 43% of U.S. school districts have at least some non-English-speaking children. One in six U.S. teachers...
...communities are braced for the challenge of multilingualism. At Salina Elementary School in the shadow of the hulking Ford Rouge auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan, 90% of the students are native speakers of Arabic. Academically, many of them lag far behind other students in the district. Earlier this year, spurred by the possibility of a five-year, $5 million federal grant, school superintendent Jeremy Hughes proposed forming a two-way Arabic-English program. Not only was the proposal rejected by the local board of education after heated public criticism, but it opened the way for a wholesale attack on bilingual...
...polling shows the usual wide disagreement with church teachings on hot-button issues, but the news here is the unshakable lay devotion at parish level." Ostling saw that devotion close up, interviewing would-be priests in Missouri and parishioners in Maryland, and even chatting with Father Greeley in Michigan. Might he pop up in a future Greeley novel? "No, it will not happen," says Ostling modestly, with a laugh. "At least I hope it doesn...
...Storm and served eight months overseas. I never questioned Powell's leadership or decision making then, and I don't now. Those of us who have been in the service realize that even when the uniform has been put away, the service doesn't stop. BRADLEY J. LOWRAN Berkley, Michigan AOL: BJLCJL...
Everyone has a humiliating story or two to tell, and some unlucky individuals such as Lisa Kron have (according to her figures) 101. Number 4: Lansing, Michigan, 1975--young girl boards school bus and feels a sharp tug at her hair, thinks it's the bully, but then quickly and painfully discovers her hair is actually caught in the merciless grip of the bus's doors. Number 12: Manhattan, mid-'80s--same young girl, though older, wiser, and out as a lesbian now, saunters through the midtown law office she's temping for, chats it up with the lawyers...