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...According to a report by the General Accounting Office, the newcomers are generally less educated and less likely to speak English. The GAO found that "some refugees, particularly some Hmong Laotians, cannot read or write in their own languages and are virtually unexposed to Western culture." They must be taught, it continued, to do such elementary things as diaper their babies and not burn firewood on top of their stoves...
...Richards became a proponent of Basic English, a simplified form of the language designed to be learned quickly. He taught in China from 1929 to 1931, and returned there last spring to help develop a teacher-training program...
...coincide with "Ansel Adams and the West," a two-month retrospective of 153 of his landscape photographs, organized by the Museum of Modern Art's director of the department of photography, John Szarkowski, and opening at MOMA next week. In workshop sessions over the years, Adams has personally taught at least 4,500 students. Original prints of his photos may number as high as 30,000. The most sought-after of these images, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941), exists in an edition of about 900, and the going price for each...
...conciliation in the Italian and Irish neighborhood of New Orleans where he was born 47 years ago. His grandfather was a prosperous "bayou entrepreneur," his father a dentist, and his mother a prominent black Creole. Although they tried to shield him from racial prejudice, Young recalls: "I was taught to fight when people called me Nigger, and that's when I learned negotiating was better than fighting." After going to Howard University and Hartford Seminary Foundation, he eventually moved to Atlanta to work with King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1972, after one unsuccessful campaign...
...suit divided Detroit's black community. "A. mountain out of a molehill," said Detroit N.A.A.C.P. President Larry Washington. "The dominant language of this country is English," added Washington. "If our children are to increase their chances, that's what they have to be taught." School officials insisted that the suit was unnecessary and cited as evidence an existing volunteer training course in the techniques of teaching standard English to black English speakers...