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Nancy McCormick Rambusch: A Reflection
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[Editor's note: This article appeared in part in the March 2004 issue of Public School Montessorian and is reprinted with permission of the editor.]
This coming fall will mark the 12th anniversary of Nancy McCormick Rambusch's death. As the founder of the American Montessori Society and as its first president, Nancy reintroduced Maria Montessori to America at a time-1960-when education for the young was floundering, and a second look at the Montessori method, which had changed the early childhood landscape for the better in the early 20th century, was sorely needed. Nancy was unique among ...
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FOOTBALL; THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL 2002; ENGLISH-LATIN THROUGH THE YEARS.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...by-year of the Boston Latin-Boston English contest, the oldest continuous high school football rivalry...13) 1887: Boston Latin 16, Boston English 0 1888: Boston Latin 38, Boston English 0 1889: Boston English 10, Boston Latin...
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THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL 2003; LATIN-ENGLISH HISTORY.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...by-year of the Boston Latin-Boston English contest, the oldest continuous high school football rivalry...13) 1887: Boston Latin 16, Boston English 0 1888: Boston Latin 38, Boston English 0 1889: Boston English 10, Boston Latin...
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Getting English out of the toaster
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press
; ...thumbs-up to the expansion of English language instruction based...teaching the very basics of English to six- and seven-year-olds does not impair their ability...of 120 minutes per week of English instruction, the amount to...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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ENGLISH ACCUSE SCOTTISH OF PREJUDICE.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...one quarter of the population is English, returned home to Kent in southeast...been assaulted and abused for being English. In other incidents three Scottish...convicted of attacking a 15-year-old English boy after watching the nationalistic...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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English as she is mis-spoke . (teaching standard English)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; Funny old language, ain't it? SORRY, Esperanto. It...Microcircuitous?-but for the time being it makes do with English. Which English, and for what time being? Some sensible teachers of English fear that the time will not be long if some other...
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English decor is the U.S. rage now
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...tea canisters in the Chinese fashion, the English hunt table and English brasses that good old Jeeves, the butler, can polish up for you at a moment's notice. The English love their brasses as much as they love tea...
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English Only: An idea whose time has gone, Jewish organizations say
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent
; ...line is that a familiarity with English is important, but that there...with my family, in one of the old mills and there were city ordinances...official also noted that the English-only argument often gets confused...native language to speaking English. It was instituted so that...
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English, English everywhere
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...proficiency in all the specialist registers of English. Not just any old English". The issue that arises in this context is, "how good is someone in writing academic English?" This, he says, is a "big problem now right...
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ENGLISH IMMERSION HITS HOME SPANISH SPEAKERS FEAR EROSION OF CULTURE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Spanish," the 7-year-old ordered, speaking to the after...and heavily accented. "In English!" chimed Jonathan Bejar...four," Alonso counted in English, adding the number of stick...native Spanish. He speaks English in the classroom, on the playground...housing with Yovanny and their older ...
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English made to feel like 'outsiders'in Scotland; Study highlights negative feelings
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...define themselves by not being English, according to the research...living in Scotland among the English- born is that they take on...According to one 46-year- old woman: "I've become quite...t stand the way the southern English felt they were far superior...
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