Dual Language Education
Dual Language Education

Author: Kathryn J. Lindholm-Leary

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781853595318

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Dual language education is a program that combines language minority and language majority students for instruction through two languages. This book provides the conceptual background for the program and discusses major implementation issues. Research findings summarize language proficiency and achievement outcomes from 8000 students at 20 schools, along with teacher and parent attitudes.

Haunted History of Delaware
Haunted History of Delaware

Author: Josh Hitchens

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1439672962

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Ghosts and legends of the First State—from haunted houses and historic sites to chilling stories of demon dogs and the Bad Weather Witch. Delaware’s long history has created many ghostly echoes in the present day, places where the souls of the dead have not yet found rest. Experience the eerie legend of Fiddler’s Bridge, meet the ghosts in the Governor’s Mansion and learn the truth behind the Selbyville Swamp Monster. Discover many more terrifying tales that will chill your bones. These are the stories of the most frightening phantoms that lurk in New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties—read them if you dare. Delaware native and paranormal historian Josh Hitchens takes a spooky road trip through the First State.

Byrd of Legislative Hall
Byrd of Legislative Hall

Author: Robert Lee Byrd

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9781587905025

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"Byrd of Legislative Hall" details more than 40 years of Robert Byrd's life as a Delaware legislator and lobbyist. He has been in the know on just about every deal that has gone down in the back rooms and corridors of power in Delaware during those years. Not only has Byrd seen it all, he has seen who was in on it pulling the strings. He knows how to maneuver a governor into not vetoing a bill. He knows the reason people in Delaware can ride motorcycles with the helmet on their motorcycle and not their head. He knows why there were no Budweiser Clydesdales in a parade when Joe Biden was elected vice president.

Haunted Delaware
Haunted Delaware

Author: Caroline Woods

Publisher: Infinity Publishing

Published: 2000-03

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 0741403455

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"Experience a haunted tour of the First State with ten terrifying true tales of ghosts and the supernatural. This is a book of hair-raising entertainment, saturated with rich historical detail. Learn about the unsettled spirits of Woodburn, the governor's mansion, including the old man who steals only the cellar's best wines and the moaning spook who has been doomed to roam the gardens ever since the days when Woodburn was a station on the Underground Railroad. Also discover the stories behind the ghastly corpses found in one of Delaware's most beautiful mansions, the vile witch who guards a legendary sunken treasure off Cape Henlopen, and what made a certain baby-sitter shiver with fear on hot August night ..."--Back cover