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Peer reviewedCahnmann, Melisa – Bilingual Research Journal, 1998
Changes in politics, the economy, demographics, and local leadership all led to the establishment of the Potter Thomas Bilingual School in Philadelphia in 1969. Describes the school's history; how it created, implemented, and sustained language policies within its personnel, curriculum, evaluation, and community policies; and present and future…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Schools, Educational Policy
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1973
This volume contains the complete text of two Senate bills designed to improve bilingual educational opportunities for children of limited English-speaking ability. One of the bills would amend Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Also included in the volume are numerous statements concerning bilingual education made by Federal…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Legislation, Elementary Schools, Federal Aid
Hartford Public Schools, CT. – 1974
As originally developed, Projecto Exito, often referred to as the Bilingual Community School or simply as "Escuelita," was in name and in deed a comprehensive community-based approach to the problems of bilingual education, funded under Title VII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. Intended to serve Spanish and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Community Schools, Compensatory Education
Mobicentrics Inc., Bronx, NY. – 1973
This program, funded under Title VII of the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965, was designed to provide an open learning environment in which students could learn to function in both English and Spanish. The classrooms were large and for the most part contained several grades which were divided into separate classes by means of dividers.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Bortin, Barbara – 1973
The Milwaukee Bilingual Education Program, a five-year pilot project, ended its fourth year in June, 1973. The program provided a Spanish/English bilingual/bicultural curriculum taught by a bilingual staff of Spanish-American heritage. Both Spanish and English were used for instruction in order that pupils might demonstrate grade-level academic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Teachers, Compensatory Education
Carin, Arthur A. – 1978
This evaluation covers the Spanish, Italian, and Haitian bilingual components funded through Title VII in Brooklyn, New York's Community School District 32. The three programs discussed are: (1) S.U.B.E. (Success under Spanish Bilingual Education), for grades K-6; (2) AVANTI (an approach to Italian bilingual education), for grades 1-9; and (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Final Evaluation Report of the Harlandale Independent School District's Bilingual Education Program.
Harrison, Helene W. – 1974
The program covers two Texas public school districts, Harlandale and San Marcos, and Southwest Texas State University. This report, however, deals only with the Harlandale Bilingual Education Program, which provides bilingual education for pupils in grades K-5 who have limited English speaking ability. Objectives are: to reduce their educational…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs
Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. – 1971
The Bilingual Education Program, designed to help children having limited English-speaking ability develop greater competence in English, become more proficient in their dominant language, and profit from increased educational opportunity, is described in this manual for project applicants and grantees. Eight chapters include a review of: (1)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Cultural Education, Cultural Pluralism
