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Barrera, Angela; Keppler, Lauren; Becker, Melody – Educational Leadership, 2020
At J. Sterling Morton High School District 201 in Cicero, Illinois, nearly 65 percent of the students are English learners. In 2014, the school started looking into how to create a culture where multilingual students were considered an asset. They created a dual-language program with an emphasis on pride and changing the status of bilingualism in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Urban Schools, High School Students, Hispanic American Students
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
The study examined how the English reading performance of predominantly Spanish-speaking students in transitional bilingual education compared with the performance of predominantly Spanish-speaking students in structured English immersion. The study analyzed data on three cohorts of students in six schools in Los Angeles; Denver; Albuquerque; St.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Reading Achievement
Bethke, Brian – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Educational Legislation, Educational Programs
Botana, Joseph – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Community Benefits, Community Programs
Swanson, Maria Medina – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1975
The Illinois Bilingual Education Service Center is State funded and includes several component projects: Illinois Resource Center; Title VII Midwest Resource Center; Illinois ELS/ABE (English as a Second Language/Adult Basic Education) Service Center; and the Bilingual Consumer and Homemaking Education Project. Project cooperation and content are…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Education Service Centers
Dean, Margaret – 1989
A home-based Spanish literacy program for Spanish-speaking parents in Elgin, Illinois, which began as a project of the Elgin school district, is described. The program originated with a search for literacy instructional materials for this group. The curriculum was designed to focus on functional Spanish literacy and basic arithmetic skills, the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Arithmetic, Bilingual Education Programs, Home Programs
Steiner, Frank, Comp.; And Others – 1974
Prepared by the Illinois State Advisory Committee for submission to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, this report focused on the growing concern among Latino parents, students, and community leaders over alleged violations of Latino students' rights to an education in Chicago, the only city in the United States with a large population of both…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Educational Assessment
Kotesky, Art – 1979
A telephone survey was undertaken of a random sample of 75 Hispanic-American family groups in Elgin, Illinois. The purpose was to learn the educational needs and characteristics of this and the large Hispanic-American group it represents in the community. Preferred courses were elicited, and the preferred method of instruction was in English with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges, Community Education
Seelye, H. Ned; Balasubramonian, K. – 1973
The bilingual situation in Illinois is described briefly, and an outline of the instructional objectives of local bilingual programs is given. The programs are to be: (1) measurable and oriented toward the end-of-year-product, and (2) organized within the guidelines for state-funded bilingual programs. The main part of the report describes the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Measurement
Cohen, Andrew D.; Rodrigues-Brown, Flora – 1977
This phase of the downstate Illinois bilingual education program included: locating all past data still in existence in 1976; determining what data were actually retrievable and usable; reporting on these data retrospectively; and finally, collecting new data for a continuing longitudinal study. There were 44 school districts with 4,579 students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Data Collection
State Univ. of New York, Albany. – 1976
This report of a New York State conference on bilingual education in colleges and universities contains opening remarks, keynote addresses, papers, and workshop summaries. Opening remarks were made by Carmen Ana Perez, Emmett Fields, and Lewis P. Welch. Keynote addresses included "Bilingual Education at Hostos Community College" by…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Colleges, Conference Reports, Educational Policy