Bookworm on Jun 09 2011 | Filed under: Bilingualism, Education
Tweet My dad was a California teacher and a member of the teachers’ union. He’d also been a communist in his youth in Weimar Germany and socialist Israel, so you’d think a union would have been a comfortable fit (although he was a Democrat by this time). In fact, he loathed the union. He had [...]
Bookworm on May 19 2006 | Filed under: Bilingualism, Democrats, Multiculturalism
Tweet Dems have, for decades, shown how little they think of the African-Americans who constitute their most loyal and reliable constitutents. In statement after statement, and policy after policy, they show that they believe African-Americans to be incapable of caring for themselves without government intervention; incapable of making educational strides without government intervention; incapable of [...]
Bookworm on Mar 20 2006 | Filed under: Bilingualism, TV
Tweet Sometimes, someone writes an article that manages to touch upon more than one issue near and dear to me. Catherine Seipp managed to do just that when she wrote about Walkout, a new HBO film. Walkout is about historic injustice, circa 1968: You’d need a heart of stone not to root for the plucky, [...]
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