The focus of this paper is on US language policy statements that govern the priorities for teaching languages other than English in public schools and the language ideologies implied by specific management moves by the federal government to regulate language education, starting with the Bilingual Education Act (BEA) of 1968. Following introductory…

Sixty years ago, federal guidelines regarding the instruction of special populations in American public schools were nonexistent. Racial minorities, language minorities, women, the poor, and those with physical and mental disabilities had not been identified as groups that needed special protections. Much has changed since then. Federal…

The John Jay Elementary Secondary Education Act Title VII Bilingual Program was implemented at John Jay High School, a comprehensive high school in Brooklyn, New York. This program was designed to offer bilingual, instructional, and supportive services to 9th and 10th grade foreign language dominant high school students. The program served 260…

This evaluation report is a description of an integrated bilingual-bicultural program which attempted to improve student achievement in oral and literate mastery of both Spanish and English. The program was funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act, Title VII and was in its third year of operation in New York City. Two hundred ninth and…

The bilingual program of the Auxiliary Services for High Schools (ASHS) provides an alternative educational system in New York for students who are bilingual or speak no English but do speak Spanish, French, Italian, Greek or Chinese. The program's primary purpose is to prepare pupils for the General Education High School Equivalency (HSE)…

Discusses controversial issues and describes several innovative programs involving language instruction for thousands of American school children with little knowledge of English. Lines have been drawn between "English only" advocates supported by the Reagan Administration and bilingualists favoring instruction in both English and native…

Factual information about the Federal bilingual education program--Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act--is provided in this document. Following a definition of bilingual education, the limits of Title VII are described. Facts are then provided about (1) amount of time spent on teaching English and in using it and the native…

The Bilingual Program in the James Monroe High School in the South Bronx in New York, was designed to offer bilingual instructional and supportive services to ninth through twelfth grade high school students under funding from Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The program was designed to provide a model for replication by…

This manual describes the Kolehion Mandikike English-Chamorro bilingual/bicultural education project in Guam. Begun in 1970, the project is located at Price Elementary School in Mangilao and Torres Elementary School in Santa Rita. A general overview of the project is presented here, along with a discussion of training for staff members, materials…

This report summarizes the current status of bilingual education programs in the United States. It is the result of a study conducted to develop planning data as well as the data necessary for the design of future studies and evaluations of bilingual efforts. In the first section of Volume 1, the objectives and methodology of the study are…

Changes in the legislative history of specialized education for students of limited English proficiency are described in this paper, beginning with the authorization of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 and going through the reauthorizations of the Act in 1974, 1978, 1984, and 1988. Important events surrounding the legislative action are also…