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...critical window during early development in which language skills are acquired and developed; the sounds that babies hear and repeat in this time period are essential to establishing their language ability. And babies are better able to learn these sounds if they hear them from a live speaker (a parent) who engages with them directly and uses language in a repetitive, reinforcing way - where, for instance, an adult and the infant interact with each other and with a new object, as they learn its name. By contrast, a video that provides multiple and different stimulating sounds, but in a passive...
Drawing on rapper Tupac Shakur’s trademark analogy of “the rose that grows from concrete,” keynote speaker Duncan-Andrade told a full house of GSE affiliates during the annual Alumni Of Color Conference about his path from East Oakland to Berkeley—and why he returned to “reinsert” himself “in the concrete” of his old neighborhood...
...next project for the Committee is planning an Ethnic Studies conference which will include representatives from several schools in the Boston area. The event, slated for April 9, hopes to incorporate student papers, alumni panels, and a keynote speaker...
...will have to go it alone - and that they are preparing to do just that. Again and again, they brushed aside Republicans who insisted that they should scrap the legislation that they have been working on for more than a year and start all over again. Americans, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "don't have time for us to start from scratch. Many of them are at the end of the line...
Politicians have thundered their outrage too. Greece's deputy prime minister, socialist stalwart Theodoros Pangalos, told the BBC that Germany still owed Greece for stealing its gold during World War II. Parliamentary speaker Filippos Petsalnikos summoned the Germany ambassador to discuss the "offensive" coverage of the crisis in the German press...