The striking achievement of Union City, N.J. — bringing poor, mostly immigrant kids into the educational mainstream — argues for reinventing the public schools we have.
For years, critics have argued that many students never became fluent enough to make their way into the English-speaking educational mainstream.
She has also been urging the Jordanian government to do more to bring refugees into the social and educational mainstream, warning that the consequences of ignoring a generation of marginalised Syrian children could be disastrous.
Bilingual education in New York City was originally viewed as a transitional program that would teach foreign-born children in their native languages until they were fluent enough in English to enter the educational mainstream.
The Opposition Unconvinced By Unconventional As the new math -- a cousin of the "new math" popular in the 1960's -- entered the educational mainstream, first in California in 1992 and then around the country, it sparked waves of opposition.
University of California, Berkeley Professor David L. Kirp, in his 2011 book, Kids First, and his 2013 book, Improbable Scholars, praised Union City's education system for bringing poor, mostly immigrant children (three quarters of whom live in homes where only Spanish is spoken and a quarter of which are thought to be undocumented and fearful of deportation) into the educational mainstream.
One of the more innovative approaches to integrating such projects into the educational mainstream is that of training future teachers at the University of Zagreb.
The college seeks to educate mainstream teachers for Israeli schools, and winning the confidence of the state's educational administration is key to their ability to place graduates.
According to Salisbury (1991) who examines mainstreaming during the early childhood years, many programs are beginning to mainstream young children with disabilities in a typical educational setting throughout the United States.
Apple is obviously rightfully building their educational strategy towards mainstream students in mainstream classes.
