Archive for the 'Bilingualism' Category

The problem with teachers’ unions *UPDATED*

on Jun 09 2011 | Filed under: Bilingualism, Education

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 two [...]

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Dems once again show how little they think of their constituents

on May 19 2006 | Filed under: Bilingualism, Democrats, Multiculturalism

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 functioning [...]

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Bilingualism and HBO

on Mar 20 2006 | Filed under: Bilingualism, TV

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, fresh-faced [...]

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