Finds that kindergarteners in schools where children tend to succeed owned far more books and were read to at home far more often than were children in less successful schools. (FL)

Describes how an English-as-a-Second-Language program can move as painlessly as possible from conversational to academic English in order to cover the use of English in business, politics, and science. The article focuses on helping students progress in their acquired language, in the absence of native speakers, after the program is over. (12…