Word: program
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...increase would have been higher had it not been offset by a decline in students in the English Language Program, for students whose first language is not English, Queen said...
...June 17 the English Language Program had 20 percent fewer students than at this time last year, Queen said...
...implementation of the Clinton Administration's vision of universally wired schools and libraries as carried out by the Federal Communications Commission is turning into a nightmare for small businesses and residential consumers, who will, after all, foot the bill for the e-rate program. The FCC has created an unnecessary and costly bureaucracy to administer a seemingly unlimited federal entitlement. While the FCC attempts to hide the true cost of the discounted Internet hookups, the intended beneficiaries of the e-rate program are told to wait to hear if their applications for funding have been approved. This program comes...
...Internet connection for students. Gore says the Internet is essential for education; Gelernter wants kids to learn first, surf later. You should have included a third, more pragmatic stance that articulates how the Internet's rewards may only be realized when linked to the responsibilities of academic achievement, a program that is run lightly in harness. Gelernter's worst fears will certainly be realized if school districts make room for computers by throwing out library books and exchanging print-reference material for stacks of CD-ROMS. This is not an unlikely future, but it is one I would just...
Kids aren't supposed to be tuning in to Dr. Drew Pinsky on Loveline, MTV's popular nightly call-in show on relationships. The program is aimed at young adults, and, Pinsky says, younger teens shouldn't watch it without a parent nearby. But they manage to. Sometimes because of a technicality: the show airs at 10 p.m. in the Central time zone instead of 11 p.m., as it does on the East and West coasts. But mainly because the subject is sex. And if sex is on the tube, adolescents are sure to find a way of getting...