A five-year program, part of the Experimental Schools Program in the Edgewood Independent School District, in San Antonio, Texas, was designed to improve the school performance of its predominantly bilingual Mexican American primary grade students by improving the attitudes of beginning students. Program changes to reverse students' anticipated…

A bilingual, bicultural program in the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, part of the Experimental Schools Program, was designed to reverse "negative self concept, motivation, and attitudes" of its Mexican American students, and by so doing, improve their academic achievement. Efforts were employed to: (1)…

Project ABRAZO, 1 of 5 speciality projects funded by the U.S. Office of Education under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, was designed to conduct research in areas of cognitive and affective learning generalizable to the 130 operational bilingual programs across the country. ABRAZO's goals were (1) to study the…

Prepared to assist professional educators and researchers who want greater detail on certain aspects of the evaluation of the five-year Experimental Schools Program conducted by the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, this supplement to the Final Report on the Edgewood School Plan is composed of abstracts that give the…

The Bilingual Education Program for 1969-70 was evaluated in this report. The program consisted of 1,220 Mexican American pupils in grades 1-3 in Harlandale Independent School District, San Marcos Independent School District, and St. John's Catholic School in San Marcos. Its primary objective was to provide a learning situation to meet the special…

The San Marcos Independent School District's Bilingual Education Program for 1972-73 was evaluated in this report. The program consisted of 684 students in grades K-5 in 4 elementary schools. The majority of these students were Mexican American with only 18% monolingual English speakers. The program's objectives were, first, to provide bilingual…

The Valued Youth Partnership of San Antonio (VYP) has been dramatically successful in improving educational opportunities for the highest risk students. In school districts with dropout rates of over 40%, the highest risk students over a 4-year period averaged dropout rates of 2.5%. This booklet provides program results for VYP for the period 1984…

This document is section one of a final report on Head Start Evaluation and Research for 1967-68 by the Child Development Evaluation and Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin. This section is composed of two studies: (A) Middle Class Mother-Teachers in an Experimental Preschool Program for Socially Disadvantaged Children (PS 001…

Designed primarily for low-income Mexican American families, the program's goals were to: expand the mother's skill and knowledge of child rearing practices and their daily use; develop her self-confidence and perceived ability to influence her child's development; increase her skills in dealing with her institutional environment; nurture her…

The program is primarily designed to provide bilingual education for pupils, in grades K-6, with limited English-speaking ability. Due to parental requests, approximately 16 percent monolingual English-speakers have been accepted into the program. Of the 529 children enrolled in the program, 89 percent have Spanish surnames. Objectives for the…

As an exploratory effort to introduce positive change in an ongoing educational process, this project had as its prime objective the development and distribution of educational materials which would inform students and the general community on the Mexican American and thereby increase understanding, reduce prejudice, and improve the self-image of…

Comprised of 60 pre-K-6 classrooms, the program was designed to provide bilingual education for pupils who have limited English speaking ability. Program objectives were to: prevent their educational retardation by instructing them in Spanish while developing their command of English; enhance their understanding and cognitive development in both…

Comprised of 27 classrooms from grade levels 1-6, the program was primarily designed to provide bilingual education for pupils with limited English speaking ability. However, due to parental requests, almost 16% monolingual English-speakers were accepted into the program. Of the 717 pupils participating in the program 84.6% were Mexican American.…

The "PESO" Bilingual Language Development Project was a 1-year pilot study in 4 West Texas county school districts involving 451 Anglo and Mexican American 1st- and 2nd-grade students. The project contained 3 components: (1) the development of bilingual oral and written language skills--instruction in the Spanish language, and the…

Program objectives were to develop children's abilities to deal with everyday and school related problems, and to make them more inner-directed by (1) developing a positive self-image, (2) increasing sensory and perceptual acuity, (3) improving language skills, and (4) improving problem-solving and concept formation abilities. Forty-five…