In 1985-86, Project CLIMB was in its first year of funding at two high schools in the Bronx, New York. The program provided instructional and supportive services to 188 students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in grades 9-12. The students were recent immigrants from Cambodia and Vietnam, and all spoke their native language at home. The goal…

While it is important to improve the outcomes of bilingual and English-only reading instruction for English language learners at all grade levels, there is a particular need to see that students are successful in beginning to read in the early elementary grades. One program that has achieved a great deal of success in meeting this goal is called…

In an effort to meet the special educational needs of limited English proficient (LEP) language minority groups in Wisconsin, a series of manuals was developed to acquaint teachers, administrators, and the public with the groups, their needs, and the existing programs to meet them. This volume is introduced by a chapter entitled "Historical…

This paper evaluates the Seattle (Washington) School District's 5-year Bilingual Resource Service Model project. The project aimed to improve bilingual education services for elementary limited English proficient students of Chinese, Laotian/Hmong/Mien, Vietnamese, or Cambodian native language backgrounds by increasing the instructional…

This curriculum guide contains six units covering over 60 hours of lessons on career development designed for Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian students in the United States. Developed for use by counselors, career guidance specialists, vocational instructors, instructors in English as a second language, and other professionals involved in career…

This annotated bibliography focuses on classroom materials for Indochinese students, but also includes teacher-training materials. The bibliography also serves as a practical means of assisting teachers and program coordinators to obtain materials by providing information on publishers, distributors, and listed prices. The bibliography is divided…

The revised edition of the resource catalog lists nearly 1,000 print and non-print materials for use in Maine schools where close to 7,000 children of linguistic minorities are enrolled. There are 19 sections on these groups or topics: Afghan, Asian and refugee, bilingual education, Chinese, civil rights, Eastern Europe, English as a Second…

Presents a framework of biliteracy development focusing on the following three continua: (1) the macro-micro continuum of policy; (2) the monolingual-bilingual continuum; and (3) the oral-literate continuum. These are discussed in the contexts of Cambodian and Puerto Rican students in two public elementary schools in Philadelphia. (SLD)

In the assessment literature, a general recommendation has been to disaggregate scores and other data for students with limited English proficiency (LEP). This has rarely been done for most non-English language background (NELB) students in the United States, with the partial exception of Spanish speakers. Nationwide Spanish speakers make up the…