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Cervantes, Robert A.; Bernal, Helen Hazuda – 1977
A bilingual, bicultural program in the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, part of the Experimental Schools Program, was designed to reverse "negative self concept, motivation, and attitudes" of its Mexican American students, and by so doing, improve their academic achievement. Efforts were employed to: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development
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San Luis Valley Board of Cooperative Services, Alamosa, CO. – 1974
The San Luis Valley Bilingual Bicultural Program was begun in 10 schools at the kindergarten level. Each year the next higher grade was to be implemented until the program was in existence from K-4. During 1972-73, there were 1,092 kindergarten and first grade children and 86 teaching staff participating in the program. Its primary goal was…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition
Schlossman, Steven; And Others – 1984
This report examines the Chicago Area Project (CAP), the first community-based delinquency prevention program, from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. The analysis is in three parts. The first part describes CAP's founding in the 1930s and analyzes the process through which it was established and the operation of its prevention…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delinquency Causes, Delinquency Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education
San Luis Valley Board of Cooperative Services, Alamosa, CO. – 1975
Primary objectives of the program were: (1) to meet the educational needs of those children who experience learning difficulties because of the inability to understand or speak the language of instruction, and (2) to maintain a sense of pride in the student's language and culture. During 1974-75, the program's 4th year of operation, there were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Community Involvement
McConnell, Beverly – 1981
This evaluation report is of a pre-school and primary grades bilingual program that was begun in 1971 as a demonstration model uniquely designed to meet the needs of children in migrant farm worker families. In order to overcome some of the disadvantages migrant children face due to frequent moves, parallel educational programs were set up in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Individualized Instruction
Garcia, Eugene E.; And Others – 1974
An early childhood education program utilizing mothers as instructors within a bilingual-bicultural format, "La Escuelita" serves 8 to 10 families. Twelve to 15 children, ages 2-3, and their mothers, ages 20-40, are involved in the program which treats their culture and language as important factors. Each child's mother serves as a…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education
Cunningham, Claude H. – 1978
A project-wide evaluation of the Houston, Texas magnet school program indicated that it successfully implemented four court-defined desegregation goals: (1) fewer schools which are 90% or more white or combined black and Mexican-American; (2) fewer students who attend such schools; (3) free transportation for magnet school students; and (4) an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Blacks, Desegregation Litigation
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McConnell, Beverly – 1976
The early education program uses paraprofessional teachers to provide bilingual multicultural education to children of migrant and seasonal farm workers. The program operates on an interstate and interdistrict basis. Interstate migrant children from south Texas are followed from their home base community to northern locations. By working…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Early Childhood Education
Askins (B.E.) and Associates, Lubbock, TX. – 1978
Designed to develop, over a 5-year period, a model K-6 bilingual program, the project provided early childhood bilingual education intervention to facilitate the learning of English and Spanish simultaneously in an effort to effectively develop the child's cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills. Innovative and tested instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education
Askins (B.E.) and Associates, Lubbock, TX. – 1980
A Clovis, New Mexico, project designed to develop over five years a model English-Spanish bilingual program for limited English proficiency students from nursery school through grade 6 did not fully meet its objectives during the 1979-80 school year, the project's fifth and final year. One hundred forty students enrolled in grades 3-6 in two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education
Stake, Robert E.; And Others – 1989
This monograph describes the activities of the second year of a 5-year program of Transition Institute research to understand and assist evaluation of demonstration transition programs for students moving from special education to work and adult living. A case study approach was used to create a description of two transition programs, based on the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Askins (B.E.) and Associates, Lubbock, TX. – 1979
Designed to develop over five years a model bilingual program for nursery school through grade 6, the demonstration program provided early bilingual education intervention to facilitate the simultaneous learning of two languages and thus develop the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills of children with limited English speaking ability from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education
McConnell, Beverly – 1976
An early education program for migrant children ages three through second grade, the program operates two permanent sites located in Connell and Moses Lake, Washington. A mobile component, operated in La Grulla, Texas during the winter months, follows the migrant children north when their families join the migrant stream from April through October…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Cultural Awareness
Savard, William G. – 1977
During Fiscal Year 1975-76, the Oregon Migrant Education Program provided educational, health, nutritional, and social services to 4,677 children. Of these, 8% were preschoolers, 58% were at the elementary level, 21% at the junior high level, and 13% at the senior high level. Slightly more than 3/4 were Mexican American, with an estimated 48%…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Ancillary Services, Career Awareness
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Smith, Mary Perry – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1985
The MESA Program, a collaborative effort between the University of California-Berkeley College of Engineering and Oakland Technical High School, is described. The program provides evidence of what can be done with early intervention for students' motivation and performance levels and minority recruitment efforts. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Black Students, College School Cooperation, College Students
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