WHAT CAN WE
LEARN FROM OTHERS?
by Val D.Rust
America is not the only country where teaching is not what it used to be.
In the once-homogeneous West German cities of Plettenberg and Altona, teachers must overcome barriers of language and culture much like those that complicate teaching in Florida, New York, and Texas. One of every three students in these two cities, and one out of five in Hamburg, are children of blue- collar "guestworkers"-from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Italy, and Spain....