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...Klerk went on to claim that, as Minister of Education, he was a "reformer" of the education system and believed that a separate system of education benefited diverse ethnic groups by teaching schoolchildren in their own language. He quoted statistics of pass rates to prove that only 50 percent of Blacks passed when taught in a language other than their own language...
Fewer than 1% of elementary-school teachers are black men. And principals want more of them as role models for inner-city schoolchildren. So schools of education are ratcheting up their efforts to fill the need. At three historically black colleges in South Carolina--Claflin, Benedict and Morris--male freshmen who commit to teaching for four years in the state receive full scholarships. The model was developed by researchers at Clemson University and will be expanded to other historically black schools...
...Federal courts and the Justice Department are arbiters for many diverse ethnic groups who seek intervention for social injustice. Even if Ashcroft's heart is pure, his failure to implement voluntary busing of schoolchildren as part of a Missouri desegregation program showed racial insensitivity. FARIBORZ MOHAMADI Lake Forest, Ill. A Bleak St. Petersburg
SPARE THE ROD Preschool kids who receive harsh physical punishments from parents tend to display excessive aggression as schoolchildren, says a study at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Researchers find that these youngsters end up feeling humiliated, frustrated by their unmet needs and unworthy of care. Later they mimic their parents' model of violence to cope with social situations...
...earth bucked and shuddered. Local officials in India are notorious for not enforcing building codes. As many apartment blocks began to teeter, the desperate leaped from balconies. Bhuj, the hardest-hit city, lost its main hospital, and 4% of its 150,000 residents are dead. Elsewhere in Gujarat, 400 schoolchildren were buried alive as they marched in a Republic Day parade...