This illustrated reader is one in a series designed for use in the Alaska State-Operated Schools' bilingual education program. This parallel English-Yup'ik reader was prepared by the third and fourth grades in the Twin Hills Sschool. Black-and-white drawings illustrate the story. The text is designed so that the English version follows the Yup'ik…

This illustrated reader contains a Passamaquoddy version of a traditional Wabnaki legend about the raccoon. It is one of a series of readers containing Passamaquoddy legends and is intended for use in a bilingual education setting. Each page presents the text in the Passamaquoddy language and in a literal English translation. A glossary of…

This illustrated reader is the third in a series of three beginning health books designed for use in the Alaska State-Operated Schools' bilingual education program. Two versions are provided, one in the Inupiat dialect of Shishmaref, Alaska, and the other in English. Both are illustrated with black and white drawings. The reader provides, in the…

This program, funded under Title VII of the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965, was designed to provide an open learning environment in which students could learn to function in both English and Spanish. The classrooms were large and for the most part contained several grades which were divided into separate classes by means of dividers.…

A detailed analysis of Utah's eleven 1979-1980 statewide special purpose educational programs are presented in this report. Each section includes statistical data, program information, evaluation processes, recommendations, and guidelines. The 11 areas covered under this report are bilingual education, career education, community education…

Roles are delineated for vocational teachers, special education teachers, and bilingual teachers in an interdisciplinary approach to vocational education of limited or non-English-speaking secondary handicapped students. (CL)

The technical report portion of a national survey of bilingual education programs funded under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is presented. The study, conducted during 1979-83, describes the characteristics of the programs' classroom instruction component. Basic project directors and parent advisory committee chairpersons…

An evaluation was done of New York City Public Schools' Bilingual Education Through the Arts program (Project BETA), which served poor, language minority elementary school students. The project enrolled 366 Spanish speaking kindergarten through sixth grade students at 2 elementary schools. Ninety-seven percent of the students were eligible for the…

The effects of cuts in the federal education budget during the Reagan Administration and the outlook for the future for education programs during the next 4 years are discussed in this speech by a U. S. Senator. The current status of the following programs is compared to their status in 1980: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, bilingual education, vocational…

Briefly outlines some of the Federal school improvement efforts during the last two dozen years that led to the development of a procedure (here described) to measure the performance of programs for Limited English Proficient students. Results of a field test of the measurement procedure are discussed. (BJV)

Briefly comments on the need to implement bilingual business programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels. Specific need areas are noted. (SH)

Central to the bilingual/bicultural debate is whether the United States should continue to serve as a "melting pot" for diverse ethnic groups, or encourage differences in culture, lifestyle, and language. This article focuses on the role that courts and law makers have played in dealing with these apparently antithetical impulses.…

The attitude that the American school is monocultural and monolingual is the single most destructive force at work against equal educational opportunity for the Mexican American or Chicano. Describes a program designed to change that attitude. (Author/RK)

Today bilingual bicultural education is the single most important development in American education, because it represents a departure from the American ethnocentrism in previous decades, and increases respect for the rights of ethnic children, and a sensitive response to their needs. The little known about the effects of bilingual bicultural…