Critical language awareness (CLA) encourages teachers and students to examine language as social practice and reflect on ideologies and power dynamics embedded within language use. In this article, the authors--both instructors in an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) federal grant project at a…

Inviting students to treat their bicultural, bilingual experience as an asset in their learning brings their culture to the center of the learning process.

This case centers on a Vietnamese language and culture program situated within an urban context. It illustrates how sociohistorical and geopolitical contexts interplay in understanding relations within schools as well as school-community relations. A new ethnoburb creates both opportunities and challenges for the Vietnamese community related to…

The increase in the nation's present and projected multicultural aged population is both dramatic and well documented. One result of this growth is a sharpened focus on racial and ethnic disparities in health, health care access, and utilization of services that impact aging adults. This paper presents work conducted by a university-community…

Based on a survey of nearly 50 agencies in 13 states, describes orientation programs designed to meet the special needs of Indochinese refugees and immigrant women, both in the United States and in overseas refugee camps. (Author/GC)

As a Leadership School in the (California) Bay Area School Reform Collaborative, Hawthorne Elementary has implemented wide-ranging programs for parents and students, including TRIBES, conflict mediation, a health and dental clinic, and a parent center. Hawthorne successfully developed whole community consensus-building, decision-making and…

This is the report of a project designed to train secondary school teachers and other ethnic studies personnel in Hawaii in the area of Asian American literature so as to enhance their understanding of ethnic identity, interethnic relations, and the process of American multiculturalism. The project performance report includes a description of a…

This performance report of the Summer Institute for Advanced Study on Educational Research for Asian Americans describes and evaluates the activities conducted from November 1, 1978 through October 31, 1979. The primary object of the project was to increase the participation of Asian Americans in the field of educational research and development.…

Situated in the heart of New York's Chinatown, the Chinatown English Language Center is a community based project designed to provide recent Chinese adult immigrants settling in New York City with basic English speaking and listening and with reading and writing skills, which are necessary to their functioning effectively in U.S. society. Five…

Brown University's Third World Alumni Activities Program is described. The program is designed to get alumni of African, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American descent involved in alumni activities, student recruitment, and fund raising. (MLW)

The Santa Clara (CA) transition project is a collaborative effort between the county's Head Start program and a San Jose school district. The program provides teacher training, transition activities, developmentally appropriate practices, comprehensive family services, and parent involvement opportunities. During 1994-95, the project is working…

A largely unseen phenomenon is shaping the direction of higher education today: the growth of leadership programs. These programs are hidden ladders that help the talented move up toward university presidencies. Their number and importance are rapidly increasing, and they will more and more determine who makes decisions in higher education. More…

The large-scale influx of Indochinese refugees into the United States generated complex educational problems at the University of Minnesota. The Asian Commanding English program, a program to help remove the language barriers of disadvantaged Southeast Asians and provide students with a support mechanism is described. (MLW)

This book reflects experiences during the first 3 years of an ongoing effort to examine the experiences of newcomer Asian parents as they encounter U.S. public schools. The second phase of the project continues program activities at schools in Chicago (Illinois), Des Moines (Iowa), Minneapolis (Minnesota), and Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and now…

The Massachusetts College of Art Data Expansion Program described in this report was developed to increase the representation of the art of non-white people in the fine arts curriculum. The project involved the location and purchase of appropriate books, slides and films; the development of a resource manual for faculty, listing such materials and…