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Download full textHartford Public Schools, CT. – 1974
As originally developed, Projecto Exito, often referred to as the Bilingual Community School or simply as "Escuelita," was in name and in deed a comprehensive community-based approach to the problems of bilingual education, funded under Title VII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. Intended to serve Spanish and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Community Schools, Compensatory Education
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
This report describes a program that was designed to end the isolation typically experienced by language minority students in traditional bilingual education and to provide language majority students the opportunity to acquire proficiency in a second Language. The program served 4 classes of approximately 22 students each (85 students) in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, English
Rivera-Batiz, Francisco – 1996
This digest presents an overview of the factors that influence the education of immigrant children in New York (New York), concentrating on students' needs, aspirations, and attainment, and the public policy directed at them. Massive numbers of immigrants have come to New York City, and it is estimated that about 320,000 immigrant children…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Dropouts, Educational Policy, Elementary School Students
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
Caminos Bilingues al Exito (Bilingual Pathways to Success), a comprehensive Title VII Bilingual Education program was established in 1995 to serve the 17 schools of the North Area Management District of the Houston Independent School District (Texas). Through teacher training, staff development, parental involvement, and instructional program…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Programs
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
"Adelante...con Ganas!" (Forward...with Enthusiasm) was a 3-year transitional bilingual program implemented at Burbank Middle School in the Houston Independent School District (Texas). The program consisted of three levels of bilingual instruction, from preliterate through intermediate, in which students were placed following state and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Hispanic Americans, Intermediate Grades
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
This report presents an evaluation of a two-way bilingual program in English and Spanish at the Cunningham Elementary School (Texas). The program was designed to extend and expand educational reform by shifting the instructional program at the school over the 5-year time span from a transitional bilingual program to a two-way bilingual, or dual…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Educational Planning, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
