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...Teuton tongue is a truly foreign language. "Most third-generation Turks in Germany do not have a sufficient knowledge of German even though most of them have been born and raised here," says Ali Ucar, a professor of pedagogy at Berlin's Technical University. In a study of 273 preschool children from immigrant families in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, most of whom were of Turkish origin, Ucar found that 63% of the children spoke little or no German and thus "didn't meet the linguistic requirements for primary school." Similar research from other regions and for other age groups, Ucar...
...FAIR] LeapFrog's Fun & Learn Phonics Bus helps toddlers learn the alphabet, but teachers say that's what school is for. Best way to prepare kids for preschool: teach them how to share and follow directions...
...small screen. Children love a good story, and licensed merchandise connected with that story is big business. Last year more than 36% of sales in Britain's $2.5 billion toy market were of licensed toy characters, up 4% from 1999. HIT Entertainment, the U.K. company that created the preschool favorite Bob the Builder, estimates that the four-digited animated handyman has generated $140 million in British retail sales of related toys and other merchandise since his launch in 1999. "It's a matter of the right image at the right time," says Mike Broadfield, Just Group's head of consumer...
...sophisticated, state-of-the-art U.S. submarine could not detect a 190-ft. Japanese fishing boat before surfacing [WORLD, Feb. 26], how is the proposed U.S. missile-defense system going to work? The Greeneville flunked preschool; can our military handle the postgraduate world of Star Wars? VIRGINIA L. COPESTAKES Columbus...
...ineligibility of unpaid caregivers for the government's major social-insurance programs make motherhood the "single biggest risk factor for poverty in old age," she writes. Her recipe for "bring[ing] children up without putting women down" calls for expensive ingredients: longer paid parental leaves, shorter workweeks, universal preschool, equal income sharing after divorces that involve dependent children. Not everyone will swallow Crittenden's argument whole, but many will savor the tartness of the vigorous public debate The Price is sure to inspire...