Word: teaching
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...reporter, I have had a chance to observe people at the top of just about every field. And it makes no difference if they are male or female, black or white, old or young, the people I observed succeeding are those who have been taught or who teach themselves to strive for excellence. The pleasure comes from knowing you have done a job the best way you know how. It seems to me, however, in our modern society that there is very little done these days in pursuit of excellence. But whatever there is, it stands out for its rarity...
...pupils in Cincinnati divided their school time between courses given in German and in English, thus providing employment for 186 German-speaking teachers. In 1917 San Francisco taught German in eight primary schools, Italian in six, French in four and Spanish in two. Yet when most cities consented to teach immigrant children in their native Chinese or Polish or Yiddish or Gujarati, the clearly stated goal was to transform the students as quickly as possible into speakers of English and full participants in society...
There are at least four ways for schools to teach students who speak another language at home...
...major problem in assessing the worth of bilingual programs is that they often employ teachers who are less than competent in either English or Spanish, or in, the specific subjects they teach. In a 1976 test of 136 teachers and aides in bilingual programs in New Mexico, only 13 could read and write Spanish at third-grade level. Says former Boston School Superintendent Robert Wood: "Many bilingual teachers do not have a command of English, and after three years of instruction under them, children also emerge without a command of English." Another complicating factor is the inability of researchers...
...same time, the 1968 reforms did little to change many traditional characteristics of the French education system. While the public schools are renowned for their ability to teach basic intellectual skills and transmit a distinctive culture, they are still criticized by progressives for their lack of breadth and creativity. A centralized bureaucracy continues to rule the schools, with fairly rigid curriculums and exams. Though French society as a whole prides itself on its democratization, the schools remain hierarchical and elitist. Separation of social classes remains strong and tends to be reinforced by the routing of students along various academic...