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...class when it comes to bridging the learning gap between its immigrants and native Swedes, and some of the reason for that turns on how it handles language. While some countries expect their immigrant students to learn in classes taught in the host language, others combine regular classes with supplementary host-language lessons. Sweden does one better. By law, if there are at least five students from the same country in one district, they have the right to be taught in their native tongue. "And that is a very powerful way to have children value their own cultures, rather than...
...Harvard women’s ice hockey team wraps up its regular season schedule this weekend at the Bright Hockey Center, and is looking to build momentum as the ECAC tournament approaches. The No. 6 Crimson (19-6-2, 15-4-1 ECAC) rebounded well Tuesday night against Northeastern with a 8-0 shutout victory following a disappointing loss to Colgate last weekend, and now hopes to continue its success as it awaits the arrival of Yale (10-8-2) at 7 p.m. tonight and Brown (6-13-1) at 4 p.m. tomorrow for a pair of key conference home...
...provide any financial or other direct support for the ROTC program.” “I think ROTC might have a negative stigma,” Jimmy said. “It’s nice that the public can see that we’re just regular Harvard students and, yeah, we do serve a purpose, albeit maybe not on Harvard’s campus because ROTC is not on Harvard’s campus.”“As I understand,” he continued, “ROTC hasn?...
...study released this week by the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Athens Medical School. Because midday napping is a common practice in Mediterranean culture, researchers studied more than 23,000 Greek adults for an average of six years and found that subjects who indulged in regular snoozes were 37 percent less likely to die of heart disease than those who pushed through the day without a nap. Michael Irwin, a co-author of the study and psychiatry professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience at University of California, Los Angeles, said that there are cardiovascular benefits...
...Regular listeners (and I'm one of them) had expected this announcement for more than a year. There was a time, early in his move from Manhattan to Minnesota last January, when he was interviewing every progressive candidate in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. ("If elected, I promise not just to catch dogs but to care for them.") Lately, we knew Franken was serious about running because, when guests would start dissing Coleman on the air, he would change the subject. He knew that FCC laws forbid a declared candidate from having his own radio show...