Bookworm on Nov 30 2007 | Filed under: Education, Immigration
You and I know that children — thank goodness! — are remarkably adaptable. Indeed, the younger they are, the more adaptable they are. It’s for this reason that pricey private schools and public schools in wealthy communities offer foreign language classes to the kindergarten set, rather than waiting, as they used to do [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2007 | Filed under: African-Americans, Education
In a debate about lagging Hispanic and Black achievement scores, people are getting an inkling that culture is an issue, but they’re still getting confused by trying to phrase the problem as one of race, not culture — a way of categorizing the issue that’s always going to make it a target for easy arguments [...]
Bookworm on Oct 08 2007 | Filed under: Military
Blogging will be light this morning. I was away from my computer almost all weekend, and am still desperately trying to assimilate everything that happened around the world, whether it’s Israeli concessions re Jerusalem, new revelations about Haditha (and why am I not surprised to find Al Qaeda’s fine Italian hand manipulating the media?), [...]
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