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...extremely alert administrators--are in trouble. Why? Because this is the information age, and the average computer gives up far too much information about itself. Because a network is only as strong as its weakest user. And because the most common log-on password in the world, even in non-English speaking countries, is "password." With users like this, who needs enemies...
...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 has non-English speakers in the classroom...
...George Mason study also underscores the value of bilingual education's most avant-garde experiments. The highest achievers were children at "two-way" schools, where English-language children and non-English speakers are mixed together, with half the curriculum taught in a foreign language and half taught in English. In Chicago five years ago, there were three such schools teaching in Spanish and English; today there are 20. In the District of Columbia, the Oyster Bilingual Elementary School is a pioneer in two-way education. Its student body is 58% Hispanic, 26% white, 12% black and 4% Asian, and after...
Members of the class of '95 read selectionsfrom the Holy Koran, the Hindu Scriptures, theHebrew Bible and the New Testament in Arabic,Sanskrit, Hebrew and English. Non-English readingswere repeated in English translation...
...film's strength is in exposing the stereotypes that dictate Jade's existence. When Jade meets Mark, he approaches her as she waits alone outside an after-hours club after being rejected by the bouncer. She attempts to ward off his advances by affecting the stereotypically demure, non-English speaking attitude of a Chinese-born girl. When his persistence charms her, her switch of persona back to her Western personality is sharp enough to cleverly echo the polar extremes that the movie is trying to demonstrate...