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Fowler, R. Clarke – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Schools throughout New England face a common problem: a shortage of teachers who are fully qualified to teach science, mathematics, special education, bilingual education, foreign languages and English. Shortages are expected to spread soon to other teaching fields due to a second common problem: New England has the oldest teaching force of any…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Bilingual Education, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Shortage
Banville, Beurmond J. – Echoes, the Northern Maine Journal of Rural Culture, 1995
A change in philosophy concerning the maintenance of native languages has led to local efforts to revive the French language in the St. John Valley (Maine), including the formation of a community organization and implementation of language programs in which children in all grades receive daily instruction in French. (LP)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Community Action, Community Organizations
Serpa, Fernando A. – 2001
This study evaluated equal educational opportunities available to Maine's language minority students, using information from four 1997 fact-finding meetings that included representatives from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, local school superintendents, English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and professionals,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Diversity (Student), Educational Finance
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1975
The St. John Valley Bilingual Education Project (Project VIBE) has undertaken the multidisciplinary French/English bilingual education of public school students in Madawaska, a Maine community near the Canadian border. The present report represents a complete description of this Title VII program, covering program development, staffing and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bilingual Education, Community Role, Curriculum