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Cervantes, Robert A.; Jones, Earl – 1977
A communication skills program, initiated in the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, in 1974, as part of the Experimental Schools Program, was conducted as part of a locally designed and implemented effort to improve the academic achievement of its largely Mexican American student body. Coinciding with the initiation of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bilingualism, Classroom Environment, Communication Skills
Cervantes, Robert A.; Bernal, Helen Hazuda – 1977
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)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development
Cervantes, Robert A.; Bernal, Helen Hazuda – 1976
A South Texas survey conducted in 1975 investigated the reading performance of Mexican American students enrolled in a bilingual program to determine whether or not students achieved significantly different reading scores on parallel Spanish and English versions of an appropriate test (Guidance Testing Associates Inter-American Test of Reading).…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing
