1.   And many study and work abroad as part of a global immersion program, immersing themselves as well in Western and Eastern concepts of leadership.

2.   A recent review of the results, she said, showed that the students performed better than similar students who were not in the immersion programs.

3.   But Mirrer said Saturday that the summer immersion programs should give such students a better chance of succeeding when they get to college.

4.   But the immersion program has its critics.

5.   He also said that he would back language immersion programs if they could be shown to work.

6.   Immersion programs are also needed because there are too few qualified bilingual teachers, especially with immigrants now dispersed nationwide in service and manufacturing jobs.

7.   It would move much of that work into special summer immersion programs and institutes on the college campuses outside the regular college framework.

8.   Members of English for the Children-Arizona want Latino students who are enrolled in bilingual education classes to be transferred into a one-year English immersion program.

9.   Other districts said they either had too few limited-English-proficient students for the new law to have much effect or already use English immersion programs.

10.   The goal of immersion programs is to enable a child to speak a second language fluently in a short period of time.