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Living in a media-oriented, Washington D.C. family, going to college in the politically tumultuous 1960s, and developing a deep interest in the American South stimulated Alan Brinkley to become a professor, he said in a speech yesterday...
...White (D-Worcester) and State Senator William Keating (D-Sharon) authored the bill. But House Rep. Frank Woodward (D-Walpole) was one of the bill's staunchest supporters. Woodward's 18-year-old daughter died in a car accident when her vehicle was hit by a drunk driver. His speech, in which he said she would have survived had she been wearing a seat belt, brought the house to its feet and won support for the bill from many legislators, Grossman said...
...ADDRESSING the critics, Mr. Bennett revealed a plan to change the approach to bilingual instruction by shifting responsibility for it from the federal to local authorities. In a September 26 speech, he said that a single national program is ineffective for school districts spread across the country. He contends that each school district can tailor its own programs to suit its unique needs...
Bilingual education is the only means of effectively improving the academic performance of non-English speaking students. It legitimizes their academic studies, rather than reducing them to vocational language training. Unlike the submersion method, bilingual instruction does not regard a student's non-English training as a hearing and speech impediment easily overcome...
Articles in the first issue cover topics ranging from terrorism to the paralyzing effect Congress has on the President's ability to forge foreign policy. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who serves on the journal's advisory board, contributes a speech arguing the morality of U.S. aid to anti-Communist rebels. In an essay, Kristol says that support is growing in the U.S. for a muscular foreign policy grounded in the belief that the conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is not one of clashing national interests, as some liberals say, but of ideologies. Kristol predicts that the U.S. will...