Filled with practical advice and workable techniques and strategies to help bilingual program directors deal with the problems they face, this handbook brings together ideas and suggestions from Title VII program directors, state coordinators, and superintendents with experience in bilingual programs. The handbook, written in question and answer…

This is an evaluation of a Title VII bilingual program that was conducted at South Bronx High School in New York City in 1979-1980 to serve Spanish speaking students. The evaluation provides a demographic analysis of the school's environment, information on student characteristics, and a program description. Instructional components discussed…

The basic goal of the Bilingual Educational Approach (B.E.A.) Program of District 28 in Queens, New York, was to develop and maintain Hispanic students' proficiency in English within a multicultural setting. B.E.A. operated in five elementary schools and one junior high school. Services were provided to 500 students. The program was implemented…

Because a lack of adequate data eliminated the possibility of using control groups or historical comparison groups, Colorado's procedure for evaluating state bilingual/bicultural programs was designed to determine whether children in the bilingual program (K-3) had learned more than they would have learned if they had not been in the program. A…

Programs for the teaching of foreign language to groups both in and out of the schools are examined for reasons why they were not successful. Emphasis is placed on faulty planning and insufficient funding. A proposal is made that the National Institute of Education undertake an investigation of present centers of bilingual and bicultural education…

This evaluation focuses on a project concerned with establishing bilingual/bicultural education for New York City children from homes in which English, French, Spanish, or Yiddish is spoken. The goals, strategies, target population, and staff, parent and student activities of the program, which involved pre-kindergarten through fifth grade…

This report reviews the bilingual program of a New York City school district (with large concentrations of students of Chinese and Hispanic backgrounds) whose goals were the training of bilingual personnel, the development of a bilingual-bicultural curriculum, and the development of a bilingual resource center. Discussed are: the implementation of…

The District 19 (Brooklyn, New York) Bilingual/Bicultural Elementary Program operated on the K-6 level in eight schools during the 1978-1979 school year. The broad goals of the program were to expand the number, scope, skills, services, and student-teacher interactions of the district's bilingual staff and to develop and administer a competent…

The John Jay High School Bilingual Program served 206 New York City Spanish, French, and Italian dominant students and 98 English dominant students in grades 9-12. Non English dominant students received instruction ln English as a Second Language or remedial English. English dominant students participated in the program through Hispanic Art…

Focusing on the time period since the 1974 Supreme Court Lau v. Nichols decision, this paper reviews Federal policy regarding bilingual education, discusses the current sociopolitical context of bilingual education, discusses evaluations of bilingual programming done to date, and examines the implications of these factors for schools and…

This report provides information on feedback from a consultant panel concerning the initial phase of the ethnographic component of the multimethod evaluation of the Head Start Bilingual Bicultural Curriculum Development Project. Adjustments made as a result of feedback are indicated. The document is organized into several sections. First, a brief…

A partial immersion bilingual (English-Ukrainian) program which included Grades 1 to 3 was examined to determine: (1) the program students' achievement in mathematics, English and Ijrainian; (2) the attitudes of parents and program personnel toward the program; (3) the program students' level of cognitive development; and (4) reasons students left…

The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title VII Bilingual Program operated at the Bilingual Mini School housed in P.S. 59 completed its third year in operation and will be expanded next year to include fourth grade participants. Grades serviced by the program during 1973-74 were Kindergarten, first, second and third. Instructional procedures in…

The conference was held to alert teachers and other interested persons to the complexities of linguistic diversity in Australia, with attention focused on the immigrant child. This report includes the individual conference papers, presented by Marta Rado, Bert Townsend, Michael Clyne, Alan Matheson, and Rede Lar, and the comments of symposium and…

This report describes an external evaluation study of two of the components (instructional and community-parental involvement) on an on-going bilingual intervention program for 3- and 4-year-old children. The purpose of the intervention program is to facilitate the learning of English and Spanish simultaneously in an environment designed to…