Los Angeles County was the fastest growing county in the country from 1980 to 1992. ... Many population centers are located in areas prone to earthquakes, floods, landslides, and mudflows. Increase population growth in Southern California puts tremendous pressure on the environment. ... With the increase population growth in the foothills, developers have altered hillsides and drainage systems, replaced absorbent topsoil's with runoff-causing asphalt. ...

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HOME SCHOOL CONNECTIONS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY For several decades now educators have recognised with great significance the integral role that parents play in their child's foundational language learning (Cairney & Munsie, 1992, p.1). ... In viewing these families as lacking, instruction in schools often continues to overemphasise the language, culture and values of the mainstream population as a way to resist the shifting demographics. ... Thus, these opposing differences between population and pedagogy often bring about tension and confusion for students, parents, teachers and s...

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Culture is defined as the shared perceptions, experiences, beliefs, knowledge, values, norms, and social forms of a group of people.1 At the time when African Americans entered the public school system it was the intent to civilize the population. ... As a result, sometimes black kids feel like, "I am going to make it miserable 5 Philip Bigler and Karen Lockard, Failing Grades (Arlington: Vandamere Press, 1992) 116. ...

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