Factual information about the Federal bilingual education program--Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act--is provided in this document. Following a definition of bilingual education, the limits of Title VII are described. Facts are then provided about (1) amount of time spent on teaching English and in using it and the native…

The failure of educational research to fully allow for limitations in methodology when drawing conclusions is faulted. In addition to this, a failure on the part of the media--educational and other--to fully publicize these limitations is also criticized. Methodological shortcomings of the 1977-78 American Institutes of Research (AIR) study of…

Are instructional aides colleagues of teachers, bridges to the school community, both, or neither? This study addresses this question by asking instructional aides about their relationships with teachers and parents and about their status in schools, and suggestions are made to create stronger bonds among these partners in education. This paper…