Gender differences have been reported in the United States in the areas of mathematical reasoning favoring males and verbal abilities favoring females. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress Science Assessment also have consistently revealed small gender differences favoring males. This paper reports gender differences in…

This manual, which is distributed to participants in a training program for school-level administrators associated with the management of bilingual education programs in Florida, contains a wide range of different types of material. The topics covered include the following: (1) a brief description of bilingual education and an outline of its…

The publication brings together the latest thinking in five areas important to bilingual education. Part one, legal aspects, deals with limitations and capabilities of the judicial process, interpretations of major court decisions, and implications of these decisions in terms of community members, educators, and school boards. Philosophies,…

A teacher training program was implemented over a 2-year period in cooperation with the Tucson Unified School District, where over 28% of the students have been identified as having a primary language other than English. The goal of the training was to provide a forum wherein teachers and administrators would explore the application of…

The results of a series of three studies of classroom factors influencing English oral language development in Spanish speaking bilingual elementary students are reported. Teacher control of oral language practice, extra practice in oral language encoding for bilingual students, and similarities between the English proficiency scores of children…

Social studies and foreign language teachers can use these two units to teach sixth-grade students about the cultures of Canada and Mexico. The units focus on the traditions, customs, and languages of the two countries. Each unit includes a rationale statement and description, a listing of goals and objectives, learning activities, addresses to…

Project Superemos, in its final year of a two-year funding cycle, provided instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL) and native language skills, as well as bilingual instruction in mathematics, science, and social studies, to approximately 125 Spanish speaking students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in grades 9 and 10. The project's…

The work-study guide is the third volume in the advanced level of a career education curriculum for elementary-secondary migrant children. Complementing the secondary level job information text and a workbook about decision making and self-awareness, the work-study guide is designed to accompany work exploration and experience programs. It…

A university writing faculty conducted a study of the concepts of unity in expository prose and of sentence structure as understood by Arabic, Malay, and Spanish speakers to discover why some students grasp some concepts more readily than others. Interviews, surveys, and analysis of written compositions revealed that the reason lies in ways these…

A part of the Southwest Board of Cooperative Services, Project SUN (Spanish, Ute, Navajo) is a multilingual, multicultural program for children in grades K-3. (KM)

This project attempted to discover whether Kansas public high school history teachers included information about ethnic/minority groups as a separate or as an equal component of their course presentations. A questionnaire was sent to all instructors of American History in Kansas. 563 questionnaires were mailed and 176 (31.2%) were returned either…

Sample class profile record sheets, student profile record sheets, and diagnostic and mastery tests are included for level 3 of the Mountain View School District Bilingual Diagnostic-Prescriptive Mathematics Program. (MN)

An evaluation was conducted of the effectiveness of the 12 LULAC [League of United Latin American Citizens] National Education Service Centers, Inc. (LNESC), which assist Hispanic and other educationally deprived students in pursuing post-secondary education. The evaluation focused on three LNESC objectives: (1) to increase the number of persons…

This evaluation report is a description of the Brandeis High School Bilingual Program in its third year of operation. The program was funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title VII. Four hundred eighty-five students who were in need of remedial work in English and/or speech were enrolled in the program. The main language in the home…