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Each of the last two seasons has been capped off by international tours. Two years ago the Classics travelled to Puerto Rico to play the Puerto Rican National Team as well as a local penitentiary squad whose inmates viewed the courtyard spectacle from their cell windows. Last year the team flew to Portugal during spring break to play a national team made up of Portuguese All-Stars...
Advocates of bilingualism contend that the programs make foreign-born students feel welcome in American society and decrease staggering dropout rates. (For Puerto Rican students in Chicago, the dropout rate runs about 70% a year, compared with 35% overall.) Moreover, they argue, students learn better through a gradual transition into English. That argument, however, has not been proved. A 1977 nationwide study of 150 schools and 11,500 students, conducted by the American Institute for Research in Palo Alto, Calif., found that bilingual programs helped children learn such subjects as math...
...Native American M 1 1 4 1 3 2 F 0 1 1 0 2 4 T 1 2 5 1 5 6 9 Pct. of Class 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 Spanish-Speaking [Mexican-American and Puerto Rican] M 17 28 32 28 27 26 - F 3 9 8 10 6 18 - T 20 37 40 38 33 44 45 Pct. of Class 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 Asian American M - F - T 71 Pct. of Class...
AFTER a friend is beaten up and sent to the hospital, Tony and his group retaliate by attacking a Puerto Rican gang, only to find out the friend isn't sure it was the Puerto Ricans who mugged him. When Tony and Stephanie win first prize in the 2001 dance contest, a goal they have aimed at for a long time, Tony decides he cannot accept it because a Puerto Rican couple really deserved...
Perhaps the sweetest reminder of home is the dance party, costing up to $15 a couple, where Latin-style bands play the marimba of Guatemala, the cumbia of Colombia, and Puerto Rican salsa. A band may be flown specially from Puerto Rico or Central America for the event, if enough tickets can be sold. Otherwise there is plenty of local talent, such as Los Estrellos Latinos de Boston...