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Cal State Fullerton professor Maria R. Montano-Harmon has been awarded a $30,000 fellowship from the National Academy of Education at Harvard University to continue her groundbreaking research on Latino youngsters' command of English.

Cal State Fullerton professor Maria R. Montano-Harmon has been awarded a $30,000 fellowship from the National Academy of Education at Harvard University to continue her groundbreaking research on Latino youngsters' command of English.

A panel appointed by the Education Department has urged that the federal government substantially revise the way it measures student educational skills, in an effort to gauge more precisely where schools are failing. The proposed changes, released Saturday by Education Secretary William J. Bennett, would expand the testing program to include more students in more subjects and provide state-by-state and reliable private school data for the first time.

The problem is one of the most difficult facing education: how to rebuild Afghanistan's shattered school system after isolation under Taliban rule and 23 years of war. More than 100,000 teachers fled the country. Computers and the Internet are unfamiliar to vitally needed personnel. Many school buildings are in ruins. In some cases, classes are held in fields where students sit on mats. Despite these hardships, Education Ministry officials expect 5.

Seymour Martin Lipset, a leading scholar of democracy and one of the most influential social scientists of the last half-century, died Dec. 31 at a hospital in Arlington, Va., of complications from a stroke. He was 84. Lipset explained the connection between economic development and democracy, an insight that earned him immediate attention.

Maria Montano-Harmon's passion for teaching was ignited in 1954 in a coat closet-turned-classroom in the dusty copper mining town of Douglas on the Arizona-Mexico border. She was 8, bright and bilingual when she was plucked from third grade to help new children from Mexico because none of her teachers spoke Spanish.

Maria Montano-Harmon's passion for teaching was ignited in 1954 in a coat closet-turned-classroom in the dusty copper mining town of Douglas on the Arizona-Mexico border. She was 8, bright and bilingual when she was plucked from third grade to help new children from Mexico because none of her teachers spoke Spanish.