Arizona legislature bans ethnic-studies programs – Yahoo! News
Just a week after signing the country’s toughest immigration bill into law, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer now must decide whether to endorse another bill passed by her state legislature — one that outlaws ethnic-studies programs in public schools.
The bill forbids Arizona schools from using any curriculum that promotes “the overthrow of the United States government” or “resentment toward a race or class of people.” It also disallows any curriculum that’s “designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group” or that seeks to “advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.”
Arizona’s superintendent for public instruction, Tom Horne, has said he’s backing the measure because ethnic-studies programs encourage “ethnic chauvinism”; he’s also suggested that such programs could breed secessionist sentiment among Hispanic students.
Republican state Sen. Jack Harper also voted for the bill, saying that certain Hispanic-themed ethnic-studies programs are “trying to say that somebody who came to this country illegally is somehow oppressed. That’s crazy stuff.”
But the legislation’s opponents say that, if the bill is signed into law, the state, not the targeted programs, would be promoting a politicized curriculum. Democratic state Sen. Linda Lopez says the bill would target a Mexican-American studies program used in her home district of Tucson. She offered an amendment — which the legislature approved — mandating that Arizona schools adopt curricula that include discussions of incidents of genocide such as the Holocaust, so that such material would not be considered as promoting “ethnic resentment.”
In another controversial shift in state education policy, the Wall Street Journal has reported that the Arizona Department of Education has begun telling principals to remove teachers who speak English with an accent from classes with students who are still learning English. Some school officials are complaining that the move will remove experienced teachers from classrooms that need them. Margaret Dugan, the state’s deputy superintendent of schools, told the Journal the request is “politicizing the educational environment.”
“Teachers should speak good grammar because kids pick up what they hear,” Johanna Haver, an adviser to Arizona educators, told the Journal. “Where you draw the line is debatable.”
The Education Department permits teachers who don’t meet fluency standards to take classes to improve.
—Liz Goodwin is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News
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Preschool Tables – Overview
Please be extra careful when you are about to buy preschool tables either for own use in your house or for professional use. You are handling fragile infants who are in their growing period and their bones are still weak. Wrong selection of the tables may lead them into unwanted threat in the sense of improper body posture due to prolonged exposure to wrong sitting position. All of us should bear this in our mind, always remember and never forget it.
Health survey had found surprising facts that so many percent of back and head ache complains are primarily caused by wrong sitting position in a long period of time. Make very sure that you are like to buy one custom made table for every single infant you are handling. Preschool tables are made to best fit infants of certain age categories. It is to understand that not every infant will have the more or less same body shape and size. That is why you must make very sure every infant use the most suitable tables for him.
It is highly recommended to teach the infants of how to sit properly. Straight backbone and their elbows are to be parallel to the floor. No one will be able to sit this way for the whole day so there is a certain tolerance properly built preschool tables will give. Such thing is in the domain of ergonomic know how. It has nothing to do with from what material the tables are made of.
Composite plastic is the most favorite material to be used in manufacturing preschool tables because it is lightweight, easy to color and easy to wash for hygienic reasons. Other material will require more effort to achieve the same performance and for sure they will not be any lighter than composite plastic. The key factor of the tables is they colorful while infants need to see and learn about colors right from their early days.
Good quality and properly built preschool tables will offer maximum comfort to infant users. This is another important key factor to the whole infant education goal which is to discipline them. Infants will do their utmost within their growing capabilities as soon as they feel happy and comfort. In this case is when they are happy to see, to touch and to sit on their tables. It is usually hard for them to do your instructions i.e. to use spoon and fork at dining lesson, or to write and draw pictures etc unless they feel happy and comfortable to practice
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it on preschool tables they like.
Some surfaces of preschool tables are made a little bit slanted rather than parallel to the floor. However, you have to know that they are not wrong products; they are made that way to function as a writing table as well. Putting slight angle to the table surface will automatically keep the infant backbone in straight vertical position while flat surface tends to make them bow too much.
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