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Gersten, Russell; And Others – 1984
Evaluation of a structured immersion program, operating since 1968 in Uvalde, Texas as part of the United States Department of Education's Project Follow Through, suggests that the structured immersion approach has had a consistent positive effect on the academic achievement of the language minority students involved. Approximately 130 Spanish…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedGersten, Russell; And Others – Equity and Excellence, 1988
Despite claims that structured immersion programs for language minority students cannot work for low-income students, two immersion projects with low-income Hispanic and Asian children worked; their effects appeared to endure even after students entered the mainstream. (BJV)
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Development
