The academic achievement, bilingual proficiency, and sociocultural competence of exiting middle school students was analyzed to provide dual-language program stakeholders with evaluative information for local control funding and accountability planning. Informed by equity as a guiding principle of additive bilingualism, researchers used…

This cross-sectional analysis explored (a) children's achievement performance, assessed by academic tests and measure of intelligence, (b) children's attitudes toward achievement, and (c) maternal attitudes toward independence training. Fifty-nine boys and fifty-five girls of high IQ and their mothers were subjects. Effective achievement…