This is an evaluation report for a Title VII bilingual program that served Spanish-speaking students attending John Bowne high school, Flushing, New York, in 1979-1980. The first section of the report discusses the school neighborhood and its demographic composition. The second section focuses on participating students' characteristics, outlining…

During the 1979-1980 school year, the George Washington High School Bilingual Program served 310 ninth and tenth grade Spanish speaking students whose command of English was severely limited. The students received intensive instruction in English as a Second Language and content area instruction in Spanish. Additional program components included…

This evaluation covers the Spanish, Italian, and Haitian bilingual components funded through Title VII in Brooklyn, New York's Community School District 32. The three programs discussed are: (1) S.U.B.E. (Success under Spanish Bilingual Education), for grades K-6; (2) AVANTI (an approach to Italian bilingual education), for grades 1-9; and (3)…

The purpose of this report is to explore what is being done, as well as what is not being done, for students who enter New York City schools with little or no understanding of English. The data provided in this report provided the basis for a class action suit which resulted in the establishment of the Pilot Schools bilingual program. The…

This study analyzes the day care-related perceptions of a group of low-income women who voluntarily enrolled their children in group day care in order to obtain or maintain employment, and explores the employment experiences of these women. Face-to-face unstructured interviews were conducted by trained black or Hispanic interviewers with 157 New…

The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title VII Bilingual Program operated at the Bilingual Mini School, located within Public School 59. The program completed its second year of operation in June 1973. During its first year in existence, the bilingual program served kindergarten and grade 1 children. Grade 2 classes were added during the 1972-73…

During the academic year 1968-69, the ESEA Title I sponsored "Teaching English as a Second Language in the Public Schools" (in the New York City Board of Education) was in its second of a projected three year program. The programs under this grant which are being considered in this evaluation are the Pilot Projects Using…

Analyzing the scope and methods of the literature on political socialization reviewed in sources published heretofore, this study lists the major omissions in the existing literature as (1) neglecting the influence of peers, (2) neglecting informal processes within schools, (3) being limited to certain methodologies to the exclusion of others, and…

The report presents an evaluation of the New York City Harmony in Career Learning and Scholastic System (Project HI-CLASS) based on results from the 1988-89 school year. The project provided support services to 420 Spanish- and Chinese-speaking students of limited English proficiency (LEP). It also proposed to instill pride in and respect for…

This report evaluates the achievement of Project GET SET, a Bronx, New York, program designed to provide supportive and peer-tutorial services to Hispanic junior high school students for the following purposes: (1) to reinforce English language skills, especially reading and writing; (2) to reinforce native language arts skills; (3) to offer…

This multi-site instructional program, in its first year of a three-year funding cycle, provided instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL) and native language arts, as well as bilingual instruction in various content areas, to 400 Spanish speaking students of limited English proficiency in grades 3-8. The functional goal of Project MAS,…

This program, in its final year of a two-year funding cycle, offered bilingual instruction and supportive services with a career orientation focus to 250 Hispanic students in grades 9-12. The major program goal was to expedite the acquisition of the English language skills necessary for full mainstreaming within an average period of three years.…

The John Jay Elementary Secondary Education Act Title VII Bilingual Program was implemented at John Jay High School, a comprehensive high school in Brooklyn, New York. This program was designed to offer bilingual, instructional, and supportive services to 9th and 10th grade foreign language dominant high school students. The program served 260…

This is an evaluation of a Title VII Bilingual Program that was conducted at a New York City high school in 1979-1980. The program served Spanish speaking students in the South Bronx. Characteristics of both the students and the neighborhood are discussed in the report. A program description outlines the general administrative organization that…

During the 1979-1980 school year, 700 Hispanic students from grades one through nine in seven schools in the Bronx, New York, participated in the Comprehensive Approach to Bilingual Education Program. The program included an instructional component that emphasized the acquisition of English as a Second Language, Spanish and English reading skills,…