Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the mysterious Akif might actually be Sedat Sirri Kadem, an old school friend of Agca's. The next week Agca stuck to his claim that he had only two accomplices in the square and said that Akif was Turkish Terrorist Omer Ay, who is in a prison in Turkey and has not been accused in the conspiracy. Last week, however, Agca did not stop at Celik and Ay. After looking at photographs of the crowd in St. Peter's Square taken just before the assassination attempt, he declared that Akif was actually School Friend Kadem, after all. The charge...
...past the point of worrying about what color the report cards should be; we're worrying about the future and what major changes have to be made," says participant Ira J. Scheter, the head of a school for military dependents in Izmir, Turkey...
...same time. Ira Scheier the principal of the military dependent's school in Turkey, says his experience abroad his given him a positive perspective on American education...
...Turkey, where the overcrowding is so bad that there are commonly two students per desk, we're looked on with envy for what we call the bare essentials." Scheier says...
Significantly, no one has proved beyond doubt that LEP youngsters learn faster or better through bilingual instruction than by any other methods, including old-fashioned "submersion," i.e., going cold turkey into regular classrooms where only English is spoken. Says Adriana de Kanter, one of the authors of a controversial 1981 study sponsored by the Department of Education: "Basically we found that sometimes (bilingualism) worked, and sometimes it didn't, and that most of the time, it made no difference...