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...passed in 1986. It sacrificed greater vigilance against illegal aliens for what was considered a generous amnesty offer, provided the aliens registered by May 1988. But only a brave 6 percent of the expected applicants had taken advantage of the offer by November, the halfway point. Illegal immigrants, especially non-English speaking ones, are scared; for them the INS is an institution set up to prosecute them, to return them to places where they would be in great danger...
Alan Brickman '76, who runs the city-sponsored Cambridge School Volunteers program, goes beyond Rindge to emphasize the scope and variety of the whole city. "Cambridge ranges from prominent families to non-English speaking families--Cambridge is Harvard Square, but it is also [housing projects] Jefferson Park and Rindge Towers," Brickman says. "The trick is to find the appropriate place for the appropriate volunteer...
...important to emphasize that this tension of competing interests on the part of the University and its members is more than just a story of the strains accompanying the process of assimiliation of an ethnic group. In other situations and in other times students of other non-English ethnicities have felt torn between the desires for assimiliation and social mobility and the need to identify with their ethnic group. For most, this conflict is predominantly internal. For Black students, the battle is external as well, involving the daily, Herculean labor of confronting a broader university population which in one breath...
...associate professor at the Graduate School of Education. She has taught at the Institute for General Linguistics of the University of Amsterdam, where she conducted research on the learning of Dutch by both English speakers and by the children of "guest workers." She is currently carrying out research with non-English speaking children in English classrooms at the United Nations International School and in New Haven, Conn. public schools...
This group includes children from low-income families, ethnic minorities, non-English or recent speakers of English, and those with specific reading and learning disabilities (dyslexia). Taken together, they make up about one-third or more of the school population--some tens of millions of children and young people who have the mental ability to make good progress in reading, but who cannot do so without additional help...