Employing a mixed-methods research design, this study examines how a newly designed dual language program in an urban school advances language proficiencies among Spanish-English bilingual 6th graders in relation to content area achievement as measured on NYS standardized tests in English Language Arts and Math. It further investigates how…

The purpose of this research was to ascertain if the reading comprehension skills of English-speaking fifth grade students improve when they study a second language. The research was done in an inner-city elementary school in Rochester, New York. The researcher provided a weekly after-school workshop in foreign languages for a group of children…

The plaintiffs in the case Rosa Maria Rios, et al., against Henry P. Read, et al., in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, involving the Patchogue-Medford School District public schools, were presented with 200 questions, organized into twelve sections dealing respectively with general enrollment data,…