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Keirstead, Carol – Equity and Choice, 1987
Describes Project LOWELL, a K-8 bilingual education program developed by Lowell (MA) Public Schools to cope with the dramatic influx of Southeast Asian pupils since 1979. Discusses five project areas: instruction, curriculum development and coordination, staff development and training, parent and community involvement, and dissemination. Issues of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Development
Download full textShore, Rima, Ed.; And Others – 1981
The Native Language Reading Approach Program of the New York City Public Schools was developed as an on-site, demonstration training program for teachers and teacher aides involved in helping students to transfer reading skills from their native language to English. As implemented in 1980-1981, the program served teachers/teaching aides of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Teacher Aides, Bilingual Teachers, Demonstration Programs
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Language Services Branch. – 1992
This guide is designed for Alberta (Canada) parents of French immersion students beginning formal English language instruction for the first time. In question-and-answer format, it discusses issues commonly of concern to these parents. Issues addressed include the following: why English instruction is introduced in the second or third year of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Objectives, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education
