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August 2002 - Study: Schools Resegregating by Race*** "I think a lot of people think that nothing can be done, and the efforts have failed," said Chungmei Lee, a co-author of the report. Lee said integration is crucial to improve education and prepare students to live in a diverse culture.***

Teachers from Philippines arrive in Boston to teach math and science*** ''We have an obligation to children to find the best math teachers we can find, wherever we can find them,'' he said.

At first it seemed as though the Philippine teachers wouldn't make it. Bureaucratic problems with obtaining visas for the teachers delayed their arrivalfor several weeks. US Representative Michael Capuano and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, both Massachusetts Democrats, worked with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to speed up the process.

''Their arrival means that a significant number of students will be able to get the good education they need and deserve,'' Kennedy said in a statement welcoming the teachers.

The teachers left the Philippines for Los Angeles Friday, stayed a night, and came to Boston yesterday afternoon. The district chartered a bus to take them to dinner at the Seaport Bar and Grille in South Boston, and then to their apartments in Quincy. Orientation for some begins today.***

TEACHERS BACK DNC WITH MONEY, MUSCLE In Iowa, New Hampshire, and other key primary states, teachers knocked on doors, staffed telephone banks, and helped get out the vote for Gore. In New York, members of the United Federation of Teachers helped distribute more than one million fliers for Gore in one day. In Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Teachers Association contacted each of its 90,000 members three times by phone and by mail, urging them to vote for Gore over Bradley………….

The teachers and their unions have long been a force in American politics. From 1991 to 1999, for example, contributions to the Democratic Party from the NEA, AFT, and the Service Employees International Union, which includes some education workers, totaled $6.7 million, making teachers by far the party's biggest donor bloc, according to the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity. The largest single contributor to Democrats - the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees - gave $3.7 million in that period……..***

Disillusioned with the public school system - Black families explore home schooling*** The reasons African-American parents give for choosing to teach their children at home varies from family to family. Some cite poor instruction, low student achievement and a lack of safety in the public schools. Others fret over the lack of moral or religious values taught in public schools.***

1 posted on 01/19/2003 2:54:02 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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2 posted on 01/19/2003 2:55:04 AM PST by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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this was posted a day ago..HARVARD released the report so it could be used by liberals for mkd day...INTENTIONALLY to arouse hatreds..

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4 posted on 01/19/2003 3:29:41 AM PST by ixeman
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Racial integration in the schools ought not to be a matter for state action unless government-run schools are denying access to persons of certain races. That was the thrust of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Any more activism than that must be premised on the notion that there's some "right" level of racial balance, and that it's a legal duty of the State to bring it about.

Imagine that concept as applied to housing. Or military affairs.

The government-run schools are failing, and the white population is stable while the black and Hispanic populations are exploding. So the government's schools are filling up with blacks and Hispanics, while whites are fleeing them for private alternatives, suburban school districts where the rot isn't yet as advanced, and homeschooling. Shall we, then, lock whites out of the suburbs or deny them access to private schools?

What gives away the real nature of the "problem" is that affluent blacks and Hispanics are doing the same things as whites, when they can. They do so in lesser numbers because, occupationally, affluent blacks and Hispanics tend to be tied to urban areas -- their jobs are more often in government, or in corporations whose main customer is government, or in family businesses cemented to a particular locale. These can be hard ties to break.

Even if you look upon this as a "problem" that requires a "solution," there's no "solution" short of privatizing all of education once more. How do you suppose the Left would look upon that?

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8 posted on 01/19/2003 4:42:19 AM PST by fporretto (Curmudgeon Emeritus, Palace of Reason)
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>>"Diversity is a goal we ought to embrace, because that's what [children] are going to face once they get out of school when they get into the work force,"<<

Only if they have lousy jobs.

14 posted on 01/19/2003 6:45:12 AM PST by Jim Noble
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The Harvard center is generally considered liberal, but conservatives will like several of its proposals that would increase "school choice, letting parents decide where their children go to school," said policy analyst Matt Moore at the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis.

LOFL!!!!

18 posted on 01/19/2003 9:50:23 AM PST by Lancey Howard (Tag line (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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Amazingly, these Phillipino Math and Science Teachers appear to have actually studied some .... taraaaah! ....Math and Science. In-friggin-credible!

This subject matter mastery by teachers is a radical concept that just might set the NEA on its ear, knocking its cherished "Socialization" theory of education into a cocked hat!

Now where this "foreign teacher" idea has come a cropper elsewhere in the USA, is when the foreigners try to discipline the American students and enforce some sort of minimal classroom decoprum. The very best of Phillipino luck to this group!

Perhaps next they will import Phillipino Social Studies teachers who can lecture to the inner city students on the value of legitimate birth, family structure, staying out of jail, and other social concepts, which the school boards of major cities have been unable to explain.

19 posted on 01/19/2003 10:58:08 AM PST by Kenny Bunk
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