A guide to bilingual education for Asians contains chapters on bilingual and multicultural education characteristics; the learner; Asian and Asian American learners; bilingual program designs, methodology, and classroom activities; instructional materials and resources for Asian bilingual education programs; and teacher competencies, staff…

Evaluation of the 1981-82 Title I Migrant Program in the Austin, Texas Independent School District involved production of a Final Report and a Technical Report which present information relevant to the decision questions; production of an Annual Evaluation Report for the Texas Education Association which documents the extent to which program…

Needs assessment is defined as the contrast between present and desired conditions. To determine needs for educational program planning, a cooperative effort is recommended, involving parents, students, community members, teachers, and administrators. This training guide was developed for inservice training on implementing the concepts and…

Parental involvement is supplementary to the main line approach of the Special Needs Assessment Program (SNAP) whose main thrust is the diagnosis and remediation and/or partial alleviation of pupil needs by the child's teacher. This Parent Perception Project is an approach which provides for the involvement of parents in the process of identifying…

This information packet is designed to aid schools in identifying financial sources that can be used to finance new intervention approaches that emphasize coordinated services. A four-part framework is offered as a guide to thinking about financing efforts to enhance programs and services to children: redeploying available funds, refinancing and…

This report outlines the Quillayute Valley Child and Family Consortium's End of Year Readiness to Learn program activities, including outcomes through May 1995. The program was established in part by the Washington State Readiness to Learn Initiative, designed to help children benefit from schooling by enabling schools and social services…

This report documents the Rochester (New York) City School District's efforts to develop and implement a school-to-work transition system featuring the following elements: activities at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels; combined formal schooling and structured on-the-job training based on nationally recognized standards;…

The guide is designed to help administrators, program directors, counselors, teachers, and other school personnel in providing instructional services for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. The seven sections address these topics: identification and assessment for instructional and language proficiency levels; assessing for…

Consistent with educational reform efforts, regular educators are being asked to meet the challenge of addressing the needs of special education and at-risk students along with "normal" students in the regular classroom. This paper examines how teacher education programs can assist in better preparing educators to meet this challenge and…

The guidelines specify principles and procedures for coordinating special services to members of Illinois' limited-English-proficient (LEP) school-age population, including transitional bilingual education and other transitional instructional programs, with other service areas. The first section presents the state board of education's vision…

The implications of Canada's national study of core French instruction for second language (L2) teacher education in that country are examined. Literature on the study's impact on language teaching philosophy and policy and on French immersion instruction is reviewed, and a survey of 36 Canadian schools of education is reported. The questionnaire…

The guide is designed to give parents basic information about the French second language (FSL) program of Alberta (Canada) elementary and secondary schools, and to answer commonly-asked questions. Sections address these topics: the benefits of second language learning; choosing French as a second language; how the FSL program is structured; how…

In 1979, Stark Technical College (STC) in Canton, Ohio, launched the Project for Academic Excellence (PAX) with the overall objective of identifying minority elementary and junior high school students of at least average ability and motivating them to prepare for higher education. During the academic year, PAX operates two 10-week Saturday School…

In Chicago and suburban schools there are many teachers who have not had an opportunity to take part in either induction or orientation programs during their first year of teaching. Exposed to proper and adequate induction programs, beginning teachers may demonstrate higher performance and skill in classroom management, instruction, discipline,…

The first annual supplement to the 1991-1992 directory of two-way bilingual education programs in the United States profiles new and some existing programs in which language-minority and language-majority children are instructed in and through both languages. this volume contains data on 25 programs in Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut,…