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What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
Success for All (SFA) is a comprehensive reading, writing, and oral language development program for students in pre-K through eighth grade. Its underlying premise is that all children, including those with limited English proficiency, can and should be reading in English at grade level by the end of third grade. (SFA can impact Spanish literacy…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Tutoring, Reading Achievement, Parent Participation
Cohen, Andrew D.; Rodrigues-Brown, Flora – 1977
This phase of the downstate Illinois bilingual education program included: locating all past data still in existence in 1976; determining what data were actually retrievable and usable; reporting on these data retrospectively; and finally, collecting new data for a continuing longitudinal study. There were 44 school districts with 4,579 students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Data Collection
Bethke, Brian – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Educational Legislation, Educational Programs

Osberg, James A. – Journal of Studies in Technical Careers, 1980
In a comparison of the ranking of occupational survival skills by Spanish-speaking and non-Spanish-speaking workers and by male and female Spanish speakers, it was found that cultural attitudes and values affect the employment success of the linguistically and culturally different. (SK)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cultural Differences, Sex Differences, Social Attitudes
Sánchez, Xiomara – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2007
This article describes an investigation of medical facilities undertaken by 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children in a dual-language prekindergarten program in Chicago, Illinois. The article describes the phases of the project and documents the children's involvement in the project through anecdotal reports, photographs, and samples of the children's…
Descriptors: Young Children, Preschool Education, Hispanic American Students, African American Students
Botana, Joseph – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Community Benefits, Community Programs
FISHBACK, WOODSON W.; AND OTHERS – 1964
DESIGNED FOR TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND SUPERVISORS, THIS BULLETIN PROVIDES GENERAL AND SPECIFIC GUIDELINES FOR ESTABLISHING AND CONDUCTING A FLES PROGRAM. IT DISCUSSES TEACHING TECHNIQUES AND AIDS, CONSIDERATIONS IN INTRODUCING READING AND WRITING, SELF-EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR TEACHERS, AND TOPICS APPROPRIATE AT EACH GRADE LEVEL (K-8). THE…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Schools, FLES
JOHNSON, CHARLES E.; AND OTHERS – 1963
A COMPARISON WAS MADE OF TWO DIFFERENT METHODS OF SPANISH INSTRUCTION. A TOTAL OF 93 FOURTH-GRADERS WERE ORIGINALLY INVOLVED IN THE 3-YEAR STUDY. UPON COMPLETION OF THE PROGRAM, 32 SUBJECTS REMAINED IN THE CONTROL GROUP AND 34 WERE IN THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP RECEIVED INSTRUCTION BY TELEVISION AND TAPE RECORDINGS UNDER THE…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Educational Television, Elementary School Students, Experimental Teaching
Rivadeneyra, Rocio – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2006
The pervasiveness of harmful stereotypes about Latinos has led to concern over the effects of these on individuals. The mass media play a central role in perpetuating these stereotypes, yet we know very little about how Latinos perceive them. The purpose of this study was to examine how Latino adolescents view portrayals of Latino characters on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Television, Focus Groups, High School Students
Swanson, Maria Medina – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1975
The Illinois Bilingual Education Service Center is State funded and includes several component projects: Illinois Resource Center; Title VII Midwest Resource Center; Illinois ELS/ABE (English as a Second Language/Adult Basic Education) Service Center; and the Bilingual Consumer and Homemaking Education Project. Project cooperation and content are…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Education Service Centers
Kozlowski, Patti R. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers, 2005
Educating newcomers to help themselves provides the knowledge and security they will need to function better in the community, but it can also be a learning experience for students. This article describes an integrated curriculum at Community High School in West Chicago, Illinois, that combines Spanish native speaking (SNS) students and child…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Community Services, Service Learning, High School Students
Price, Rolanda – 1994
This report describes a program for improving motivation in eighth grade, first-year Spanish classes in a growing middle and upper class, predominantly Caucasian suburban community of northern Illinois. Survey results confirmed that students' enthusiasm for foreign language study decreased dramatically once the novelty of learning Spanish had worn…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Grade 8, Introductory Courses
Northeastern Illinois Univ., Chicago. Chicago Teachers' Center. – 1993
This guide describes a worker-centered, holistic, English-language training program for the textile industry in Illinois, now in its fifth funding cycle. The program, which provides training to approximately 500 workers, requires cooperation among business, labor unions, and educational organizations. A 5-unit curriculum covers work issues, health…
Descriptors: Clothing Instruction, English (Second Language), Fashion Industry, Labor Education
Schrauf, Robert W.; Sanchez, Julia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
The "working emotion vocabulary" typically shows a preponderance of words for negative emotions (50%) over positive (30%) and neutral (20%) emotions. The theory of affect-as-information suggests that negative emotions signal problems or threat in the environment and are accompanied by detailed and systematic cognitive processing, while…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Contrastive Linguistics
Baca, Orlando G. – 1975
The document presents the beginnings of a data base for educational policy and program planning at Northern Illinois University regarding the Spanish-origin population of its service area, and was compiled from numerous surveys conducted by various agencies, groups, and individuals. The quantitative description of the Spanish speaking presented…
Descriptors: Demography, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Trends