Word: program
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However bad the existing system is, then, replacing it with a one-tiered, un-nuanced program that basically tells the students to swim or drown cannot be the optimal solution. The problem with Proposition 227 is not its diagnosis of a badly ailing bilingual education program; on that, there appears to be overwhelming consensus. The problem is with the particular antidotes it prescribes...
...determined by people like Ron Unz. The failure is that conservative voices are the only ones shaping the discourse on bilingual education in California and that no serious alternative plan has emerged from the liberal camp, leaving a vacuum where there should be thoughtful dialogue and a monolithic, conservative program where there should be interesting alternatives...
...poor families to buy laptop computers but soon backpedaled from the proposal and called it "a nutty idea." In this low-income Manhattan neighborhood, the idea of 11-year-olds toting $1,500 laptops to school is so nutty that the school district plans to expand its laptop program from Mott Hall's 30 sixth-graders to more than 200 students in the next month. Not long ago, laptop computers were a luxury even administrators couldn't afford; now the district wants to make them as common as spiral notebooks in its classrooms. Superintendent Anthony Amato predicts that laptop computers...
These days laptops, once the accessory of bicoastal businessmen, are right at home next to grade-schoolers' lunch boxes. A program launched by Toshiba and Microsoft that offers software-loaded laptops to schools at discount rates has grown from 52 public and private schools in 1996 to more than 170 this year. The private Cincinnati Country Day School requires all 500 of its students from grades 6 through 12 to carry laptops; the school pays half the cost, and parents chip in one-third. The public school district in Beaufort, S.C., leased laptops to 300 students last year, and after...
Then there's the cost. Good portable computers can range from $500 to $2,000--and don't expect high-tech companies to simply hand them out. The Microsoft-Toshiba laptop program has stoked the brand loyalty of more than 10,000 students. Apple peddles the eMate, a laptop created in 1996 specifically for kiddie consumers, which goes for $650. NetSchools, a company based in Mountain View, Calif., started up last year to sell one product: a $1,600 portable computer custom-built for students that comes with an infrared connection to the school's computer network, a water-resistant...