This is an evaluation of a Title VII bilingual education program carried out for Spanish speaking students in grades K-5 at Public School 155 (P.S. 155), Brooklyn, New York. A brief background of Title VII legislation is given. Instructional goals, staff development, parent involvement, and the development of a bilingual curriculum are listed as…

The Rafael Cordero Bilingual School (RCBS) provides a basic program in bilingual education for junior high school students. During the 1978-1979 school year, approximately 20% of enrolled students were English-dominant and 80% were Spanish-dominant. The program serves its major educational function as a way-station for bilingual students coming…

This evaluation focuses primarily on student achievement in a Title VII bilingual/bicultural education program at Junior High School 45 in New York City's East Harlem. The program, which served approximately 325 predominantly Hispanic students in 1977-78, is described in terms of its instructional components, student grouping, evaluation…

The primary goals of the Program for Achievement in Chinese and English and Spanish was to provide for the special linguistic, academic, and cultural needs of Chinese and Spanish speaking students in grades seven, eight, and nine. Program activities capitalized on students' native language proficiency while they developed competency in English.…

Separate evaluations of three Title VII bilingual education programs carried out in elementary and junior high schools in Brooklyn, New York, are presented in this report. The programs are S.U.B.E. (Success Under Spanish Bilingual Education); AVANTI (an approach to Italian bilingual education); and HABILE (Haitian Bilingual Education), which…

This report presents the evaluation of the 1973-1974 Fall River Middle School Research and Development Center, a project funded by ESEA Title VII as a model demonstration bilingual program beginning in 1972-1973. The evaluation focused on the assessment of the degree of accomplishment of product objectives for each component of the program. The…

This evaluation focuses on a project concerned with establishing bilingual/bicultural education for New York City children from homes in which English, French, Spanish, or Yiddish is spoken. The goals, strategies, target population, and staff, parent and student activities of the program, which involved pre-kindergarten through fifth grade…

The program covers two public school districts, Harlandale and San Marcos, and Southwest Texas State University. This report, however, deals only with the San Marcos Bilingual Education Program, which provides bilingual education for pupils in grades K-5 who have limited English speaking ability. Due to parental requests, 19% monolingual English…

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII program instituted by the public schools of the District of Columbia serves approximately 1600 students in 14 elementary school sites and includes both Spanish/English and Chinese/English components. This evaluation report details the progress of Title VII bilingual education towards meeting…

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)…

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…

This is an evaluation report on a Title VII bilingual program that was conducted in Community School District 30, Queens, in New York City during 1980-81. The report states that the program served pupils of limited English capacity whose native languages were Greek, Chinese, Italian, and Spanish. The program's goals, activities and structure are…

The Bilingual Education Act (BEA) title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), is the federal program intended to help children who are limited English proficient (LEP) learn English. BEA activities focus on transitional bilingual education; developmental bilingual education; special alternative instruction (such as English as…