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...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 six years of Spanish-English curriculum, its sixth-graders score at a ninth-grade level in reading and a 10th-grade level in math...
...featured acts took the stage: The Outlaws, Rick Derringer The Guess Who, Eddie Money, John Anderson and Doug Kershaw. Blue Oyster Cult, also scheduled to play, left before performing amid rumors of a fistfight...
...front in a visible waybecause we are not perceived as poor and becausepeople think of our students as having the worldas their oyster," Carnesale says...
Edmunds often moves to formal verse in his longer pieces in The High Road to Taos, , resorting to trite rhyme schemes like, "Farewell, my love, goodbye/Red wine, and oyster pie..." The feeling of spontaneity in exploring a single image, taking a break from the main road is lost. While several small moments of impact may be contained within a single poem, they cannot save the whole from fragmentation...
...factories or offices but sit at home in "electronic cottages," using their modems and faxes and keyboards to cruise cyberspace. These voluntary shut-ins are not merely customers anymore but "prosumers" using and adding to the daily flow of data. Synergies run rampant. The world is becoming the oyster of computer literates...