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...George Mason study also underscores the value of bilingual education's most avant-garde experiments. The highest achievers were children at "two-way" schools, where English-language children and non-English speakers are mixed together, with half the curriculum taught in a foreign language and half taught in English. In Chicago five years ago, there were three such schools teaching in Spanish and English; today there are 20. In the District of Columbia, the Oyster Bilingual Elementary School is a pioneer in two-way education. Its student body is 58% Hispanic, 26% white, 12% black and 4% Asian, and after...
...Harvard Square, many of those stores weren't there; Mass. Ave. was a two-way street," Thompson recalls...
...race to catch the next big technological wave: the intersection of computers, telephones and cable television as well as the electronic services by which information travels across these networks. Americans call it multimedia; the Japanese call it ``maruchimedia.'' By whatever name, it encompasses everything from CD-ROM games to two-way television to the Internet, and quite a bit more. While foreign companies, most of them in the U.S., are zipping ahead along this frontier, Japan is way behind, clueless in cyberspace. What's going...
Chief among the combatants are the telephone and cable giants that are building rival versions of the information highway. One of these is Bell Atlantic, which plans to spend $11 billion on fiber-optic cable and other equipment to bring two-way TV to 8 million homes by the year 2000. Another is Time Warner, which is neck and neck with TeleCommunications Inc. in the race to be the nation's largest cable company. Time Warner is teaming with U S West to test its notion of a state-of-the-art system in Orlando, Florida, as part...
...followed a rocket from Edwin Artzt, chairman of Procter & Gamble, the largest U.S. advertiser. Last year Artzt told agencies that unless Madison Avenue gets its interactive act together, companies like his will find other ways to tell consumers about their PRODUCTS. Manufacturers are already diverting advertising dollars to direct marketing; many see the online medium as a way to expand such efforts. The arrival of two-way television will raise the stakes even more. If interactive-TV systems fulfill expectations, viewers as independent as today's Net surfers will be able to travel not just to Websites on flat-panel...