LexisNexis Articles

Distance Learning

1. Boards offer Web courses; Internet learning designed to be flexible, interactive. Windsor Star (Ontario). January 16, 2003.

In Ontario high school students are able to take one class per semester online. They stress that eLearning is not for everyone, but they want their students to have the opportunity to try this style of learning before college.

2. Online learning is all about flexibility. The Ottawa Sun. December 13, 2006

“Thanks to the far-reaching powers of the Internet, online learning has quickly become mainstream. It is now the preferred mode of education for students who -- by virtue of their location, work schedules or family commitments -- cannot attend regular college classes.”

3. Technology and teaching. The Montreal Gazette. October 10, 2006.

In this article, it is arguing how socially defiant internet courses tend to be. “A proper university education is more than just classes, anyway. Sharing ideas in a seminar -- not to mention the coffee shop or the pub -- is a vital part of it. When ideas rub together -- even ragged, ill-informed freshman ideas -- the result can be that precious thing, true learning.” The article did not accept the idea that Internet Learning is better than an actual classroom setting.

Spanish in American Classroom

1. PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE; The beauty of language. San Francisco Chronicle. May 24, 2006.

This article was about a man named John Oliver Simon who teaches Latin American poetry to third graders, once a week, in dozens of schools in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco. He argues “Above all, students are learning that a foreign language can be a thing of beauty, not some kind of obnoxious virus that needs to be wiped out. It's a lesson some of our national leaders have apparently not yet learned.”

2. GREENE RECEIVES HONOR FOR BILINGUAL PROGRAM. Global News Wire. August 15, 2006.

In Greene County North Carolina, kindergarten classes are mixed with both English speaking children and Spanish speaking children. The program is called “Los Puentes” which means “Bridges”. They are bridging children of both cultures together at an early age. "You have entered into a 12-year pipeline which will help students achieve fluency in both Spanish and English and will eventually place them among the leaders of our state," said David Williams, director of the Global Communicators Program.

3. TEACHING SPANISH TO DESTIN'S CHILDREN IS SUSAN WHEELES' THING NEW TEACHER AT DMS. KRTBN Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News - The Destin Log. September 20, 2006.

“With America's evergrowing Spanish-speaking population, Wheeles, at the age of 25, decided to begin teaching the language to children. "I love children. I always have," she said. "I love seeing them learn and helping them. About one-third of the country is Spanish-speaking, so Americans need to be more diversified." Susan Wheeles has taught Spanish to children for five years.

Global Warming/Animals

1. U.S. may call polar bear endangered: Move seen as sign global warming threat is finally being taken seriously. Edmonton Journal (Alberta). December 28, 2006.

"The science of global warming and the impact to polar bears are so clear that not even the Bush administration can deny that polar bears are threatened with extinction because of global warming."

If the proposal is accepted, the polar bear's new-found status could increase public awareness about climate change.

2. Bearing the burden. Kamloops Daily News (British Columbia). January 4, 2007.

Simply put, the polar bear that lives on the sea ice of the Arctic is threatened because the planet is warming. “Warmer temperatures are thinning the ice sheets off Arctic coastlines, shrinking the bears' hunting grounds and hampering breeding. Roughly 15,000 of the world's 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears live on Canadian soil, while Alaska is home to about 4,700 animals. That might seem like a large population, but scientists are reporting accelerating death rates because of the lack of pack ice.”

3. Bears endangered: Extinction: The U.S. wants polar bears shielded from effects of climate change. Nanaimo Daily News (British Columbia). December 28, 2006.

The United States is proposing listing the polar bear as an endangered species, marking the first time the Bush administration has suggested climate change could be responsible for threatening an animal with extinction. “The proposal to recognize the bear under the Endangered Species Act, drafted by the Interior Department's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has been applauded by wildlife experts in both Canada and the U.S.”