Word: regular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Citizens of Clayton are proud. "They feel as though they are contributing something to the nation," says Clyde Sowers, editor and publisher of the Union County Leader. The Leader, in fact, broke new ground in anthropomorphic journalism by featuring the windmill in a regular column titled "Know Your Neighbor...
...Chinese rises from a history class. Soft Spanish vowels punctuate a science lesson. A model international academy? Hardly. It is Chicago's Nicholas Senn High School on the city's ethnically mixed North Side, where foreign-born students enroll in special bilingual programs that allow them to study a regular curriculum in their native languages as well as in English...
...official purpose of the federal bilingual programs is to help foreign-speaking children use their native tongue to learn English rapidly, then switch to a regular school program. Yet the degree of emphasis on English differs markedly from program to program...
...called transitional programs shoot their students into regular English-speaking classrooms as quickly as possible. Under a second technique, called the maintenance method, rapid mastery of English is still the goal. But students continue studying their own culture and language. A third approach, being tried in areas with large Hispanic enclaves, such as New York, Florida and Southern California, is bilingual and bicultural: the programs encourage native-born Americans to achieve fluency in a foreign language even as their counterparts are learning English. In Miami's Coral Way Elementary School, which inaugurated the bicultural method to cope with the huge...
...problems. There is an acute shortage of qualified teachers. Textbooks are scarce. One Arabic teacher in Chicago finally telephoned Jordan's King Hussein personally for help; Hussein donated a planeload of textbooks. In an age of tight school budgets, bilingual programs tend to cost about twice as much as regular classes because of special teachers and materials...