Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were other illusions; "At the time, I thought that teaching was politicizing. Now, I'm very ambivalent. Some of the courses I teach show people how to think, and that's politicizing in and of itself," she says. But I just don't know how many people you reach...
Quality does not stop at the factory door, as buyers have found during sometimes rancorous relations with dealers. GM has thus instituted a massive program to teach mechanics how to service the new cars and has also established an arbitration procedure to settle disputes among customers, the dealers and GM. This year Ford is tripling the number of training hours usually available on a new model to dealers and their mechanics...
...divorced parents in 60 families. Their conclusion, reported in an article in the Journal of Social Issues, was that children reared by same-sex parents exhibit greater maturity and independence. There is also less child-parent friction and a closer interrelationship. Mothers, after all, are less likely to teach boys to fish or hit a ball, and fathers are less experienced at dressing dolls or little girls. But try to tell that to the judge...
...open ten more next year. He already faces stiff competition from at least five other would-be top-of-the-roll tycoons, notably Fashion Designer Michel Axel, who owns Croissant-Show (a Franglais pun on chaud, or hot). Jean-Luc is now planning to invade the U.S. and teach burgerphiles to live by fast and fancy bread alone...
...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 Education Act giving non-English-speaking children the option to study in their native tongue as a means of easing their way into U.S. life...