ERIC Number: ED285936
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 40
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Project COPE, 1985-1986. OEA Evaluation Report.
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation.
In its final year of funding, Project COPE provided instruction in basic skills and career development to 388 students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in grades 9 through 12 at three sites in Brooklyn and the Bronx: 150 Hispanics at John F. Kennedy High School, 150 Haitians at Prospect Heights High School, and 88 Italians at Christopher Columbus High School. The project was centrally administered, but the project's style of functioning at each site was influenced by the attitudes of the staff, the characteristics and needs of students, and other factors. This year's major change occurred at Prospect Heights, where a new assistant principal for foreign languages was given responsibility for administering the project. Prospect Heights was adversely affected by the shortage of both Haitian Creole-speaking teachers and texts, but nonetheless the program there has undergone promising improvements. At Kennedy, the project was integral to the bilingual education department, but at Christopher Columbus non-project-related staff voiced skepticism about the project, and it was the only school which did not offer native language instruction. The different sites varied in meeting program student achievement goals, and the dropout rate of program students was virtually zero. The following recommendations might improve future multi-site programs: (1) selected schools might be closer to one another and/or might serve students from the same language group; and (2) funds for continuing COPE-like services should be raised to meet the needs of the continuing influx of Spanish-speaking students at Kennedy and Prospect Heights. (KH)
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
Sponsor: Department of Education, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation.
Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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