As IGAP goes, so go bilingual exams

Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  December 14, 1998 ;     700+ words ......for even more comparisons. Many bilingual students, though, were left out of such reports...how their youngsters compared with bilingual students across town -- let alone those statewide...void in the public assessment of bilingual students' work -- and showed them growing...

Bilingual Funds Withdrawn

Oakland Post;  October 13, 1993 ;     571 words ......the Zambrano plaintiffs, a class of bilingual students and their parents who sued the Oakland...failed to provide equal education to bilingual students since 1976. Bilingual students, their parents and attorneys, educators...

Easing into English

Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  December 13, 1998 ;     700+ words ......sure of their English. As Kelley's bilingual students supplied the day's date -- some in...spring, California voters decreed bilingual students should take no more than a year to...authorities did likewise. In Chicago, bilingual students who are not transition-ready after...

U-46 works to give bilingual students shorter bus rides.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  May 26, 2004 ;     667 words ......close to home next year, a crop of bilingual students in the Elgin area may end up exactly...will reserve eight classrooms for bilingual students, but that may not be enough to house...Cabrera is bracing for an influx of 350 bilingual students, and those are just the kids he knows...

The Surge in Bilingual Education // City and Suburbs Struggle to Meet...

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......say, is the fact that more and more bilingual students are not merely struggling to learn...the vast bulk of the state's 87,000 bilingual students and has seen their numbers grow by...demographics, such as the number of bilingual students. Spanish-speaking students still...

Growing bilingual needs District 21 struggles with problem created by...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  March 17, 2002 ;     700+ words ......that offered a preschool program for bilingual students who need classroom instruction in...that point, District 21 was sending bilingual students needing dual-language programs to...officials decided to stop spreading bilingual students across the district. The Board of...

Crowding squeezes bilingual students.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  February 17, 2004 ;     492 words ......classes no longer allows for groups of bilingual students to rotate in for math or science...students only during art, music and gym. Bilingual students who excel in school and score above...nuances and idiomatic expressions. Five bilingual students at the east Elgin school jumped ...

BILINGUAL STUDENTS DO POORLY IN ENGLISH-ONLY TEST.(News)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  July 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Daily News Staff Writer California's bilingual students scored significantly lower than their...the state's Board of Education. The bilingual students statewide scored nearly 20 percentile...but it comes as no surprise that bilingual students' scores are lower than other children...

District 87 considers moving students in bilingual program

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  April 13, 2006 ;     254 words ......Nielsen proposed Wednesday moving the bilingual students from Sheridan and Stevenson elementary...others, he said. There are about 80 bilingual students. There are 10 to 15 students in the...centralize that program and cut time bilingual students spend on the bus. Technology The...

Segregation complaint filed against Dist. 21.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  May 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ......board's decision to transfer 170 bilingual students to Twain next fall will create a...change will transfer 170 Hispanic bilingual students who live in the Piper Lane area of...plan that would move 170 Whitman bilingual students to Twain, based on projections that...

COMMUNITY IN BRIEF

Sun Publications (IL);  November 4, 1998 ;     655 words ...WILL COUNTY'S BILINGUAL STUDENTS FACE `A NEW WORLD' On her...Will County, the majority of bilingual students speak Spanish. But just because...The growth in the number of bilingual students is more rapid in the suburbs...

Teacher as architect of mathematical tasks. (Implementing the Professional...

Teaching Children Mathematics;  January 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......of choosing and using worthwhile mathematical tasks. Teachers are curriculum architects...with ensuring the quality of the mathematical tasks in which their students engage. Although...Embedding curriculum in worthwhile mathematical tasks increases the likelihood of success...

The expected and unexpected literacy outcomes of bilingual students

Bilingual Research Journal;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......and Unexpected Literacy Outcomes of Bilingual Students With the growing number of second-langua...had been born in Mexico. All three bilingual students had entered a U.S. school either...However, two out of these three bilingual students, after four or five years of all...

Tests for bilingual students takes on new importance; New formula: The...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  December 28, 2002 ;     346 words ......which measures the English skills of bilingual students. That new formula could push more...including the IMAGE scores or make all bilingual students take the regular ISATs, which would...their regular state assessments to bilingual students," said Carmen Chapman Pfeiffer, ...

INJUNCTION PUTS BILINGUAL TESTS UNDER WRAPS.(NEWS)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  June 26, 1998 ;     419 words ......Thursday from publishing the scores of bilingual students who took the Stanford 9 achievement...release and interpret results of bilingual students at a news conference planned for...might not be able to weed out the bilingual students' scores in time for the mandated...