The Bilingual Learning Centers in Elementary Schools program was begun in four Philadelphia public schools in 1982-83. The project's goal was to improve the achievement of limited-English proficiency children through work in bilingual learning centers containing materials and instructional devices for individual and small group work. Learning…

Special Programs to Enhance the Education of Disadvantaged Youth (Project SPEEDY) was in its seventh year of Title I funding, the main thrust being in the area of corrective reading and other programs designed to promote language development. Although concentrating funds on fewer students has been made increasingly difficult by busing pupils,…

Six classroom research-based instructional projects funded under Chapter 2 are described, and their outcomes are summarized. The projects each used computer hardware and software in the classroom setting. The projects and their salient points include: (1) the Science Technology Project, in which 48 teachers and 2,847 students in 18 schools used…

The second year of a Title VII project entitled "Bilingual Learning Centers in High Schools" is described. The program created learning centers in two Philadelphia public and one diocesan school designed to provide individualized instruction to limited-English speaking, primarily Spanish-speaking students in bilingual education programs…