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Rabin, Lisa M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
In this article I describe the work of Leonard Covello, a New York City language educator and high school principal of the early 20th century who argued for Italian and Spanish heritage language (HL) preservation in schools. Although Covello promoted standard language Italian and Spanish in the HL classroom, he also encouraged HL students to use…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, High Schools, Italian, Spanish
Coles-Ritchie, Marilee – Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
The way many secondary schools are structured limits the ability of immigrant English Learners to achieve academically and develop social networks, often resulting in hyper-segregated learning experiences. This book explores the journey of a group of teachers in a secondary school as they work to change the ESL program for immigrants in their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Social Networks, Immigrants, English (Second Language)
Shore, Rima, Ed.; And Others – 1981
The Louis D. Brandeis High School Bilingual Program provides English and Spanish language instruction, academic courses, and supportive services for Spanish speaking students of limited English proficiency. This report describes the program as it was implemented in 1980-81. The program description includes background and context; student…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), High Schools
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1986
Project BEAM-UP offers English as a second language (ESL), native language arts, and bilingual content-area instruction to students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in grades 9 through 12 at Sarah J. Hale High School in Brooklyn, New York. The student participants speak Spanish or Haitian Creole. The goal of the program is to help these…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs
Shore, Rima, Ed.; And Others – 1981
The Secondary Chinese Bilingual Education Program, which operates at two high school sites in New York City, is designed to develop English language skills and provide academic and vocational instruction to Chinese speakinq students of limited English proficiency. This report describes the program as it was implemented in 1980-81. The program…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese Americans, English (Second Language)
Cotayo, Armando; Collins, Carla – 1984
This program, in its final year of a two-year funding cycle, offered bilingual instruction and supportive services with a career orientation focus to 250 Hispanic students in grades 9-12. The major program goal was to expedite the acquisition of the English language skills necessary for full mainstreaming within an average period of three years.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Awareness, Career Education
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Marsh, Leona – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
Liberty High School (New York City) enrolls newly arrived immigrant students with limited formal schooling. Its Spanish Dual Language Literacy Program focuses on teaching content areas in Spanish while developing literacy skills in both languages. Discusses provision of both academic and social support, experiential investigations of the city,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Schools, Class Activities, Dominicans
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de las Casas, Walter – Hispania, 1987
The Spanish Native Language Arts program at Sarah J. Hale High School (New York) integrates the study of reading, writing, and vocabulary with the study of texts that present cultural, literary, and artistic achievements of Hispanic cultures. (CB)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Guides, High Schools, Hispanic American Culture
Derewetzky, Solomon – 1992
Project Chinese Opportunities in Career Education (Project CHOICE) was evaluated under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title VII. Project CHOICE was designed to serve the needs of a large number of Chinese bilingual students with programing incorporating both business/vocational education and academic components. The program was to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education, Chinese
Mercurio, Kristine – 1992
The Career Awareness Program for Bilingual Haitian and Hispanic Students (CAP) in New York City was designed to provide these high school students of limited English proficiency with instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL), native language arts (NLA), and content area subjects taught bilingually. It also was intended to provide students…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Career Awareness, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)
Newell, Jessica; Smith, Joye – 1999
The study examines the population of long-term students of English as a second language (ESL), those who are enrolled in ESL programs for four to eight years but have not mastered the cognitive and academic skills in English to compete at grade level, in one New York City (New York) high school, and the efforts being made to address this…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Characteristics, English (Second Language), High School Students
Cabrera, Eulalia; And Others – 1988
The Bilingual Education and Career Awareness Program at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in the Bronx was awarded a 1-year grant extension to provide services to 235 ninth- through twelfth-grade limited-English-speaking Hispanic students of varying English and Spanish proficiency. Primary program goals were to increase English and Spanish…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Guidance
Villegas, Jose J.; Cabrera, Eulalia – 1988
Project CARIBE (Career Awareness in Bilingual Education) was a Title VII-funded project in its third year at two New York high schools, one in Brooklyn and one in Queens. The project supplemented municipally funded bilingual programs for limited-English-speaking Hispanic students by establishing a resource/computer center and conducting academic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Awareness, Career Education, Curriculum Development