This is a report on the fourth year of the Let's Be Amigos bilingual project. The project consists of three components: Model A provides bilingual/bicultural education to English-dominant and Spanish-dominant pupils in prekindergarten through fourth grade; Model B provides bilingual/bicultural education to Spanish-dominant pupils, first through…

Evaluation of a bilingual-bicultural education program indicates that significant progress was made in enabling all students to function equally well in both Spanish and English, in providing basic coping skills, and in developing the basis for a pluralistic society. The program included 210 kindergarten and first-grade children consisting of…

This report is the last in a series on the four-year Providence Bilingual Project at Fox Point School. The evaluation is provided by the Curriculum Research and Development Center, University of Rhode Island, and follows guidelines established by the Office of Education. Part 1 deals with instructional evaluation. The project objective, the…

In its fifth year of operation, the project served about 2,000 students in the Philadelphia public schools. The three components of the project are: (1) Model A, providing bilingual education from prekindergarten to fifth grade, (2) Model B, parallel in pattern to Model A but serving grades 1-4 and grade 2 at othe schools, and (3) Arriba, designed…

This compendium of over 250 evaluation instruments in use by project sites throughout the U.S. is designed to assist bilingual/bicultural educators in locating, developing, or adapting evaluation instruments suitable to local assessment needs. The titles and descriptions of instruments listed are those provided by staff in bilingual/bicultural…