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Bilingual education program evaluation.
Thesis. 1979. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Federal public policy and bilingual education
… reviews the historical and legal background of bilingual education policy. Chapter three presents a literature review of bilingual education policy making, and examines the impacts and effects of federal aid in practice. Chapter four provides a summary of survey findings and recommendations for …
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Prospects for Improving Bilingual Education: An Analysis of Conditions Surrounding Bilingual Education Programs in U.S. Public Schools
<p>Bilingual education is a subject of debate in education. Some claim that bilingual education programs are detrimental to students, but decades of research supports the benefits of bilingualism and bilingual education for both English Language Learners and monolingual English speakers. The U.S. …
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A critical analysis of bilingual education in Michigan: history and current administrators [sic] perceptions of changes in state policy mandating bilingual education
… study of the development and current status of bilingual education in Michigan. A qualitative-quantitative methodology was used to study the consequences of elimination of the Michigan mandate for bilingual education in favor of a voluntary funding program. One hundred and four local school …
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Bilingual Education : Searching for the Ideal Elementary Bilingual Program
Bilingualism refers to an individual’s ability to proficiently use multiple languages. Bilingual education, then, refers to all programs that seek to teach using two specific languages. Bilingual education’s goals are to not only academically but also culturally embrace the student learner and …
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An Ethnography of Bilingual Education in a Chinese Community
… of a ten-year-old "maintenance" Chinese bilingual program in a public school located at the heart of a Chinatown community in California.
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Bilingual Education in Palmetto City: A Case Study (Florida)
Most bilingual education programs to date have been carried out and evaluated with little awareness of the possible effects of contextual factors on their operation and outcomes. The present study was undertaken to gain some insight into how the relationship between school and community might …
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Bilingual education: selected principals' experiences with programs at their schools
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-07-07 at 13:27.
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ADVOCATING FOR A TRANSITIONAL BILINGUAL EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
… which advocated for the use of a Transitional Bilingual Education program. A number of challenges were addressed to provide English Language Learners with the same opportunity to attain high levels of academic achievement as English proficient students. Common English Language Learner program …
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LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF ARIZONA BILINGUAL EDUCATION STATUTES AND POLICIES.
… statutes which placed a limit on the amount bilingual education services a district could provide to students. The existing literature on implementation and compliance suggested that several conditions might influence districts to implement programs of instruction which would be at variance …
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A Meta-Analysis of Selected Studies on the Effectiveness of Bilingual Education
… of selected studies on the efficacy of bilingual education was conducted and the results were compared with a traditional review of the same literature. Participation in bilingual education programs consistently produced small to moderate differences favoring bilingual education when …
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A Historical Look at "The Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education"
… of The Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), beginning with its first editor—Alma Flor Ada. It traces the shifting focus of the journal’s articles during each of its editorial eras, noting the changes between heavily politically-focused editors/eras and those …
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A comparison of role expectations of bilingual education principals in selected Indiana schools
… held by selected referent groups of the bilingual education principal in Indiana. Referent groups in the study included:1) Bilingual education program directors.2) Non-bilingual education program directors.3) Bilingual education principals.4) Non-bilingual education principals.5) …
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Dual language bilingual education program implementation : teacher language ideologies and local language policy
… implementation process of a dual language bilingual education (DLBE) program in over 60 schools in a large urban school district in Texas to identify language ideologies and issues of language policy and policy implementation according to local participating educators. Drawing on a language …
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NATIVE LANGUAGE ATTRITION: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF THE PERCEPTIONS OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION STUDENTS
… we encounter students who strive to become bilingual educators because Spanish is their native language. However, these students often struggle with the academic vocabulary in Spanish even though they entered the U.S. school system with Spanish as their native language. The limited use of …
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Academic Achievement Patterns of Former English Language Learners Served in a Bilingual Education Program
… of the English language, it is imperative that bilingual education programs are evaluated to determine the level of ELL academic success. The purpose of this study was to examine the long-term academic success of students formerly served in a bilingual education program so that achievement …
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The New Face of Bilingual Education: Is It Worth the Battle? One School's Struggle
<p>This study examined the changing role of bilingual education in a Title I elementary school in Northern California. The review of the literature revealed that there is a lot of misinterpretation and confusion about the role of native language use in academic settings. There are no detailed, …
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