Bilingual education programs are all programs set up to provide support to non-English-speaking children. In most public debates, the main focus is on bilingual education programs that are designed to teach immigrant children education academic subjects in their native languages. English is gradually introduced into the classroom. Basically, the underlying idea is to allow immigrant children to keep up with studies in other academic subjects while they work on their English skills. Furthermore, providing bilingual education programs is also a way for schools to show their support of traditional values of the immigrant students’ native culture. Therefore, in this motivating and protective environment, the advocates of bilingual education programs seek to maximize the chances of academic success for these immigrant children by easing the

Ron Brandt’s “On Performance Assessment: A Conversation with Grant Wiggins” discusses how a system of performance assessment should be established that will enhance learning and achieve its objectives of offering meaningful quantifiable scores. Essentially, Grant Wiggins (who was interviewed by Brandt) offers a version of performance assessment that can be used as a more accurate instrument of assessment than standardized multiple-choice tests.
First, educators have to identify a precise set of criteria for evaluating the progress of students. Furthermore, a scoring process also has to be established that match this set of criteria (Wiggins in Brandt 36-7). This component provides performance assessment with a degree of objectivity and reliability—one of the key aspects that have made standardized tests

Introduction
Managing projects is an integral part of a company's ongoing strategy for success. Those organizations which are able to effectively and efficiently manage projects are those which are profitable over the long-run; those organizations which are not able to manage projects may be successful in the short-term, but they will suffer when business conditions worsen and the company must operate effectively for mere survival. Managing projects has progressed from a manual process involving large quantities of paperwork to a largely automated process in many organizations. Regardless of the level of automation, the same basic components are found in all project management systems. This research explores the issue of project management, including what constitutes project management, how a project management system works, and the prob

TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
Introduction
In the next ten years, it is expected that American schools will be short almost 2.5 million teachers (NEA,2001), a statistic that highlights the importance of programs aimed at teacher recruitment and teacher retention. A good deal of the shortfall in American teachers is said to be due to teachers leaving the profession at alarming rates; for example, the National Education Association (2001) reports that about 20 percent of all newly hired teachers leave the profession within three years and about six percent of teachers overall leave the profession yearly.
In terms of the causes of teacher attrition, Ingersoll (1998) states that the single greatest causative factor is t