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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 1992. Assessing Evaluation Studies: The Case of Bilingual Education Strategies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2014.
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Appendix C
Acronyms

Listed below are the acronyms used in this report:


AFDC

Aid to Families with Dependent Children

AIR

American Institutes for Research


ESEA

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

ESL

English as a Second Language


FEP

Fully English proficient


GAO

General Accounting Office


LEP

Limited English proficient

LM

Language-Minority

LM-LEP

language-minority limited-English-proficient


NCES

National Center for Education Statistics

NIE

National Institute of Education


OBE

Office of Bilingual Education

OCR

Office for Civil Rights

OPBE

Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation

OBEMLA

Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs


Part C Committee

Education Division Coordinating Committee


RFPs

Requests for proposals

RTI

Research Triangle Institute


SAIP

Special Alternative Instructional Programs

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 1992. Assessing Evaluation Studies: The Case of Bilingual Education Strategies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2014.
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Bilingual education has long been the subject of major disagreements in this country. This book provides a detailed critique of the two largest studies of U.S. bilingual education programs. It examines the goals of the studies and what can be learned from them. In addition, using these studies as cases, this book provides guidelines on how to plan large evaluation studies to achieve useful answers to major policy questions about education.

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