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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Amaral, Olga Maia; Garrison, Leslie; Klentschy, Michael – Bilingual Research Journal, 2002
A 4-year science education project in a rural southern California elementary school involved kit- and inquiry-based science instruction, including the use of science notebooks. Evaluations of fourth- and sixth-grade students in the program for 0-4 years found that English-learners with longer program participation had increased achievement scores…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
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Amaral, Olga Maia – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
A survey of 100 parents in a California school district bordering Mexico examined relationships between the bilingual program parents chose for their kindergarten and first-grade children and parental demographic factors. Parents placed their children in settings that mirrored home language use. Parents with a higher level of education were more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Hispanic Americans