Some families, parents and children included, may not be fully prepared or aware as they enter into the commitment of a dual-immersion language elementary education experience. One factor crucial for a dual-immersion program to meet its objectives, parents and students must commit to a minimum of five to six years of their elementary education to…

This report, written in French, provides an evaluation of a bilingual French and German experiment within the framework of compulsory schooling in Sierre, a community in Valais, Switzerland. The program began began in the 1994-1995 school year. The models examined are an early partial immersion kindergarten program (model I) and a middle, partial…

Analyzes limited English proficiency (LEP) program costs in 15 representative California elementary schools. Personnel, classroom, resource, and administrative costs were analyzed for five program models (bilingual early exit, bilingual late exit, double immersion, English as a Second Language, and sheltered English). Across all models, the total…

The project is designed to support the school district's voluntary desegregation plan by providing a highly individualized program to attract pupils from outside the school boundaries. A Bilingual-Bicultural Learning Center and supportive instruction personnel were installed in the school to help with the variety of needs of the individual…

The evaluation of bilingual education programs is complicated by such factors as the diversity of evaluation methodologies and program goals and the reliability of instruments for minority language students. Three bilingual program evaluations in foreign countries are described in terms of their different contexts and approaches in order to raise…

A study is reported which examines the following issues: the linguistic and cultural values that the Chinese community attaches to education and to the processes and outcomes of education; and the nature of the community's involvement with school programs and the degree of match and mismatch between the school and the home culture. Data were…

Makes a case against bilingual education. Describes bilingual program designs, discusses research findings indicating that bilingual programs are unsuccessful, and suggests reasons for their failure, including lack of staff, inadvertent linguistic segregation, and Mexican-Americans' feudal, agrarian cultural background. (RW)

In this evaluation of the fourth and final year of a Japanese and Korean bilingual education program, the program's seven major goals and sub-objectives are reviewed, and the program's success in attaining these goals is discussed. Data was obtained from visits to participating schools. It is concluded that the program met 15 of its 16 stated…

Project Cumbre, the bilingual education program at the Ann Street Bilingual School in Hartford, Connecticut, was evaluated for the 1981-82 school year. The school was attended by 279 students in kindergarten through grade 6, of whom the majority were Hispanic. The participants, program, and objectives are described. Results are reported on (1)…

The operation of "Encendiendo Una Llama," Hartford, Connecticut's program for bilingual gifted students, was evaluated for the 1981-82 school year. A total of 173 gifted children of limited English proficiency in grades 3 through 6 were served by the program at four locations. The program, staff, objectives, and target population are…

An evaluation was conducted of "Project Adelante," an ESEA Title VII project supporting a Spanish-English bilingual education program in Hartford, Connecticut. The federal funding provided personnel for staff development, parent involvement, and evaluation over 5 years of a bilingual education program serving 600 Hispanic children in 3…

The third-year evaluation report of a federally-funded elementary school Japanese and Korean bilingual program in the Torrance (California) Unified School District contains information on the background and previous revision of the program evaluation plan, the evaluator's opinion regarding the program evaluation plan elements, results of the…

In order to contribute to the refinement of methods for assessing the adequacy of program implementation, this study investigated data collection efforts made during the implementation of ALERTA, a bilingual, multicultural preschool curriculum model. Comparisons of results are made with those of previously conducted studies of program…

A case study of three Eastern urban schools examined the difficulties inherent to measuring bilingual program success. Results indicate that significant data sources were available, but they were rarely disaggregated in a fashion conducive to showcasing bilingual programs. Teacher involvement in establishing, reviewing, and monitoring assessment…

The final report of a five-year federally-funded bilingual education program in four schools of the the Sunnyside School District in Tucson, Arizona, is presented. The following areas are addressed: (1) student enrollment patterns, (2) the instructional program for kindergarten through fifth grade and its development, (3) staff development efforts…