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• Should Schools Separate Non-English Speaking Kids?

  At first blush, I would have said separating non-English speaking kids from their English speaking peers at school is a segregationist tactic that hinders the chances of immigrant children from success.  But a New York Times story that follows kids at the Cecil D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C., begs the question - if kids can succeed separately, wouldn't throwing them in with English-speaking kids be the real hinderance to academic success? Read More... Posted Mar 16 2009, 04:29 PM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: education, high school, teachers, schools, Jeanne Sager, english, immigration, language education, segregation, immigrant children

• Should Schools Be Teaching Parents English?

  Immigrant parents who don't speak English can't help their kids achieve. That's the premise behind a program that's sending non-English speaking parents into elementary schools to learn alongside their children.  Is this another way of helping kids succeed or another burden immigrant parents have put on American society? Read More... Posted Mar 03 2009, 02:59 PM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: education, immigrants, schools, language, english as a second language, Jeanne Sager, english, language education, language instruction, parental involvement in schools, illiterate parents, immigrant parents

• Only English Here Says Kansas School

  Did I miss some crucial Supreme Court ruling, whereby we took free speech from the mouths of minors? A Kansas court judge has OK'd a Catholic school's decision to ban all non-English speech within its walls.  The way he sees it, telling kids they can't speak in any language but English does not create a hostile learning environment. Parents of three kids in the school district disagree - all Hispanic, they want their kids to have the right to speak Spanish within the walls of the building.  What's wrong with that? Read More... Posted Feb 18 2009, 05:03 PM by JeanneSager with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: education, racism, schools, language, Jeanne Sager, english, spanish, intolerance, multilingualism, Mandarin, language education

• British TV journo turns down big bucks for baby pics

  Natasha Kaplinsky, a British television journalist (is that an oxymoron? The television journalist part, not the British thing) recently turned down an offer of £500,000 from "several celebrity magazines" for photos of her newborn babe, according to Mail Online. At current exchange rates, that's… wait… carry the one… one hundred billion U.S. dollars, right? (It's not, but it's still a lot of money.) Read More... Posted Sep 30 2008, 11:34 AM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: Celebrities, boy, television, celebrity, news, baby, birth, dads, mothers, pregnant, england, celebrity moms, money, moms, cash, UK, tabloids, famecrawler, expecting, daily mail, bump watch, born, Brett Singer, sarah palin, english, british, due, journalists, belly bump, television journalist, look, reader, celebrity magazines, natasha kaplinsky

• Whites Quickly Becoming Minority in U.S.

  Here's another fun demographic fact uncovered by the new Census Bureau report: not only are American whites of European descent having less babies, but Hispanics are having more. With 2.3 kids per mom, Hispanics are having more children than other ethnic group in the U.S. Still, Hispanic women today are having less children than their mothers did, mirroring the nationwide trend of reduced fertility. Read More... Posted Aug 23 2008, 12:18 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: mothers, moms, birth rate, fertility, population, minority, hispanics, report, english, immigration, bilingual, latinos, u.s. census bureau, choosing not to have children, census, choosing to have children, spanish, whites, official language

• Office plus Baby = No Work?

  As an experiment, three Guardian staffers brought their rugrats to the office and blogged about the experience. The result? Not much work got done. Zoe Williams, who brought 6 month old Thurston (love those British names) to the Guardian offices, points out that letting babies hang out at the workplace "irks non-parents." Bottom line: none of the three people in this particular group dug the experience, at least in terms of productivity. Williams puts it best when she says that Thurston is, "a nuisance. A lovely nuisance, but nevertheless..." As someone who brought Thing 1 to my place of business a few times when he was very young, I can say that there is a way to get stuff done and also have the kid there. Read More... Posted Apr 23 2008, 06:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: babies, work, childcare, Brett Singer, english, british, guardian, non-parents, thurston, bright horizons, zoe williams