Prospects: The Congressionally Mandated Study of Educational Growth andOpportunity. First Year Report on Language Minority and Limited English Proficient Students

摘要

The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive data on the limited Englishproficient (LEP) and other language minority (LM) students served by Chapter 1. It serves as a companion piece to the Prospects Interim Report. Chapter 2 provides demographic descriptions of LEP and other LM students. The descriptions provide information about student gender, ethnicity, region, and urbanicity, as well as information about family income, employment status and education. Chapter 3 reports on the performance of LEP and other LM students on several measures of student performance, including standardized achievement tests, reading and math grades, and teacher judgments of students on a series of academic, social, and affective behaviors. Chapter 4 presents descriptions of the types of ESL/bilingual and regular classroom services that LEP and other LM students receive. Finally, Chapter 5 briefly reviews the major findings and discusses plans for the second year of the study.