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Valentino, Rachel A.; Reardon, Sean F. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
This article investigates the differences in academic achievement trajectories from elementary through middle school among English Learner (EL) students in four different instructional programs: English Immersion (EI), Transitional Bilingual (TB), Developmental Bilingual (DB), and Dual Immersion (DI). Comparing students with the same parental…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Longitudinal Studies
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Ó Ceallaigh, T. J.; Ní Dhonnabháin, Áine – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
As a language, Irish is unique to Ireland and is, therefore, of crucial importance to the identity of the Irish people, to Irish culture and to world heritage. The Irish language however has had a turbulent and traumatic history and has endured a complex and varied relationship with the Irish people. Since the foundation of the Irish Free State,…
Descriptors: Irish, History, Models, Language Planning
Valentino, Rachel A.; Reardon, Sean F. – Grantee Submission, 2015
This paper investigates the differences in academic achievement trajectories from elementary through middle school among English Learner students in four different instructional programs: English Immersion, Transitional Bilingual, Developmental Bilingual, and Dual Immersion programs. Comparing students with the same parental preferences but who…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Academic Achievement, English Language Learners
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Roy, Robert R. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1980
Proposes a model of immersion strategy based on an emphasis on communication and on the use of a great variety of teaching techniques. (AM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English, French
Chicago Board of Education, IL. – 1991
In September 1980, the Board of Education of the City of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Justice signed a consent degree that committed the board to the development of a comprehensive student desegregation plan to remedy the effects of past segregation on Black and Hispanic students. To fulfill the goals of the Chicago Desegregation Plan,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education