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Cambridge of the day offered some idyllic moment--Dexter Pratt, the Village Smithy of Longfellow fame, spent hours daily under the spreading chestnut. And when the tree came down, the schoolchildren of Cambridge had a rocking chair made from its wood, which they presented the poet on his 70th birthday...
...program worked just that way, there would be no problem. But Miguel's curriculum is a tiny part of a crazy quilt of local, state and national attempts to cope with the growing number of U.S. schoolchildren, some 3.5 million of them, for whom English is a second language. Now lumped under the heading of bilingual education, these efforts began with special ESL (English as a second language) classes. Later came attempts to teach children in their native tongue for a few years so they would not fall behind while they learned English. In 1968 Congress passed the Bilingual...
...city of Los Angeles has more than 2 million Spanish-speaking residents. But Mexican Americans are spread all over the state, placing a bilingual burden on small school systems too. Of California's 3.9 million schoolchildren, nearly 10% so far have been defined as limited, or non-English-speaking. The bilingual program suffers from a lack of adequate teachers. Says State Board of Education President Michael Kirst: "We need 9,000 teachers. We only have 5,000, and the demand is growing faster than the supply...
...itself than usual. Some 2 million Soviet tourists, officials, businessmen and shoppers who ordinarily visit the capital every day in summer from other parts of the country have been barred until after the Olympics. A million adults were vacationing in the countryside or seashore, and more than a million schoolchildren were off at summer camp. Untold thousands of dissidents and undesirables were being kept out of sight in outlying areas...
...conversation." Last fall Jordan attacked several prominent black leaders, including Chicago's Jesse Jackson, for supporting the Palestine Liberation Organization. Said Jordan: "The black civil rights movement has nothing in common with groups whose claim to legitimacy is compromised by cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians and schoolchildren...