This program, funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was designed to provide continuity of instruction in reading and mathematics for eligible pregnant school age girls in New York City. It was also designed to provide bilingual English-Spanish instruction for eligible students. The target population for the program was…

This is an evaluation of the Trilingual Education Learning Environment Program (TELE) which provided training to teacher interns in New York City. The program sought to improve the linguistic performance of limited English proficient students by training Spanish/English and Italian/English teachers in Title I designated schools, and to serve as a…

This report is concerned with bilingual bicultural education programs in Spanish and Creole French, offered in District 22, Brooklyn, New York. Student selection, class structure, staff characteristics, and monitoring of student progress are described. Curriculum materials are listed for the following: (1) bilingual French classes in reading,…

The Strengthening Early Childhood (Bilingual) program was designed to develop English language skills for pupils in grades one and two who were below the twenty-first percentile when tested on the Language Assessment Battery (LAB) in English. One hundred thirty-eight students were seen by three teachers and three paraprofessionals in groups of ten…

The District 6 program for Pupils with Special Educational Needs (PSEN) was designed to provide (1) supplementary reading instruction to English speakers, and (2) bilingual instruction and reading skills, including English as a Second Language (ESL), to Spanish and Greek speakers. A total of 3,856 kindergarten through third grade children and 227…

Separate evaluations of three Title VII bilingual education programs carried out in elementary and junior high schools in Brooklyn, New York, are presented in this report. The programs are S.U.B.E. (Success Under Spanish Bilingual Education); AVANTI (an approach to Italian bilingual education); and HABILE (Haitian Bilingual Education), which…

THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA) HAS PREPARED A LIST OF 1,717 TITLES AND SOURCES OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS. PERTINENT INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR PURPOSE AND SUITABILITY FOR THE VARIOUS LEVELS OF INSTRUCTION IS PROVIDED. IN MARCH 1959, THE MLA BROUGHT TOGETHER A WORKING COMMITTEE…

The Eastern District High School bilingual-bicultural program served 367 Hispanic students in grades 9 through 12. Students received instruction in English as a Second Language and/or reading English, native language arts, math, science, and social studies. Students were mainstreamed for art, music, physical education, and health. Elective courses…

The data analyzed for this report was obtained as part of an interdisciplinary project on the measurement and description of widespread and relatively stable bilingualism in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Greater New York City area (Fishman, Cooper, Ma, et al. 1968). The area studied by the team of linguists, psychologists, and sociolinguists…

This article is the result of interviews with 20 members of the Puerto Rican intellectual elite in New York City, including singers, poets, artists, journalists, scholars and organizational leaders. One of the chief purposes of these interviews was to discover in which group of minority group intellectuals the Puerto Ricans can be placed: those…

THE INSTITUTE OFFERED TEACHERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THEIR LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES AND TEACHING SKILLS, AND TO EXAMINE, USE, AND EVALUATE NEW INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS. THE CURRICULUM INCLUDED COURSES IN METHODS, THEORY OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING, AND CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS. THERE WERE ALSO WORKSHOPS FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY TEACHERS OF FRENCH…

Discusses the author's experience as director of the Program in English as a Second Language (ESL) at Lehman College of the City University in the Bronx, New York. ESL, bilingual, and mainstream (ie., curricula that assume English proficiency) programs should be better coordinated to meet their common goal. (BJV)

In its first year, the 1987 Bilingual Program for Eleventh and Twelfth Graders provided mostly over-age, limited-English-speaking students with an opportunity for more timely graduation through instruction in English as a second language (ESL) and content-area instruction in the summer. Eligibility requirements included limited English proficiency…

Bilingual education is an issue which has been of deep concern to immigrant, particularly Hispanic, communities, but has had little visibility to the general public. No systematic surveys have been conducted either among Hispanics or the general public to find out how people feel about this issue. This report presents the results of two telephone…

In 1985-86 Project MASTER an innovative Title VII program emphasizing language development through bilingual instruction in mathematics and science, served 640 students of limited English proficiency (LEP) at six elementary schools in the Bronx, New York. Most of the students were born in Puerto Rico, but many were from the Dominican Republic,…