Project Summary

Portraits of Success was designed to recognize examples of outstanding bilingual education programs throughout the country. Based on criteria drawn from research in the fields of second language acquisition, bilingual education, and school improvement, a database that identified and disseminated the characteristics and outcomes of successful bilingual programs was created. Project work has been completed and is available through the archived web site.

Portraits of Success was a joint project of the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), Boston College, and the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University (a program of The Education Alliance) from 1996 to 2000. It was a national effort, supported by a number of experts in the field of bilingual education, to develop a database on successful bilingual education.
Goals of the program:

• To fulfill one of NABE's missions of "identifying and publicizing the characteristics and outcomes of successful bilingual education programs."
• To promote the implementation of quality bilingual education.

Web site: /pubs/pos