An 11-item questionnaire for completion by students in secondary grades is provided. The questionnaire questions relate to the Bilingual Program and the student's attitude toward the program. (DB)

GRADES OR AGES: K-6. SUBJECT MATTER: Bilingual education; French-English. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is in French. It is divided into four straight-text chapters and an appendix and is offset printed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: General objectives are discussed in the introduction; no…

This document is a collection of articles on various subjects in education. "Aspects of a Bilingual Classroom" includes considerations of the function of self-confidence and the nature of the curriculum in a classroom with bilingual students. "Learning to Read" discusses reading instruction from the point of view of child…

Briefly presents the opinions of two experts--one pro and one con--on the issue of bilingual education. (JMB)

This report discusses four bills that have been introduced to the House of Representatives to amend Title IV of the United States Code to declare English as the official language of the United States, as well as for other purposes. The first two bills, H.R. 123 and H.R. 345, are both entitled the Language Government Act. they are very similar in…

Describes some federal programs directed toward education of the many school children in the nation whose native language is not English. (AB)

A list of bilingual education projects conducted throughout the nation during the 1969-70 school year and funded by the Federal Government is presented. (CK)

Describes a bilingual education program in Peru that attempted to introduce reading in the native language of that country along with instruction in Spanish. Traces the development and implementation of the language curriculum, sketches the problems that were faced, discusses the materials used, and presents an evaluation of the program. (FL)

The clarification of the April 8th memorandum is that "the Lau remedies are minimum requirements and that in cases depending on student language dominance, grade level, and academic achievement, a bilingual program 'is' the remedy, and the only educationally sound way of ensuring effective participation in the instructional program." (NQ)

Explores three perspectives on bilingual mathematics learners and considers how a situated and sociocultural perspective can inform work in this area. Illustrates how a situated and sociocultural perspective can expand views of what counts as competence in mathematical communication. (Author/MM)

Systems of bilingual education in three neighboring countries, Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei Darussalam are examined in an attempt to understand basic issues. These are all Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries that fall into the category of Small Young Countries as discussed in Pakir (1992a). (Contains 43 references.) (JL)

Reviews arguments for considering whether Pachuco (the borderlands vernacular which is neither United States English nor Mexican Spanish) belongs in curricular considerations. (SR)

This book contains a collection of formal and informal reading assessments for use with students in Grades K-12. These assessments assist the teacher in targeting areas of strength and weakness, in monitoring student reading development, and in planning appropriate instruction. Unlike large-scale achievement tests, the majority of these…

Drawing upon critical analyses of participant observations of classrooms, school documents, and in-depth interviews with teachers, administrators, and school-district supervisors conducted from 1999 to 2002, this qualitative study employs a post-structuralist framework to probe one US public elementary school's quest to realize educational equity…