The OE sponsored Spanish Curricula Development Center plans to produce, field test, and revise 48 multidisciplinary, multimedia two-week unit curricula kits -- 16 for first grade, 16 for second grade, and 16 for third grade, to contain materials for teachers and for pupils. (JF)

In this article, the author reviews the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Four Edition Spanish (WISC-IV Spanish), an individually administered measure of intelligence for Spanish-speaking children who are English language learners and relatively new to American culture. The WISC-IV Spanish, like its English counterpart, the WISC-IV, is…

Discusses a course intended to: (1) foster a two-way interaction and commitment between the university and the hispanic community; (2) acquaint students with the local resources for using Spanish and with local manifestations of Hispanic culture patterns; and (3) experiment with team teaching. (Author/NCR)

The current era of neoliberal capitalism has witnessed the domination of public education by business interests which openly promote the spirit of competition among schools, educators and students through a policy of high stakes accountability for immediately measurable educational outcomes. In the USA, this policy proposes to make teacher…

This dissertation describes an ethnographic case study of an elementary school in a border city in Southern Arizona. Its purpose is to explore teachers' professional lives at Cactus Elementary School (CES; pseudonym) through classroom observations, interviews and informal conversations. The majority of the fieldwork was conducted in the 2004-2005…

Ecuador's 2008 Constitution--and a subsequent law on higher education passed in its wake--effectively suspended student fees for public universities. The goal of this reform was to increase equality of opportunity. In this article I use newly-available individual-level retrospective information from the 2001 Census to explore gender and ethnic…

This research study evaluates the effectiveness of a Spanish-English dual language immersion (DLI) program. Many researchers have found that high-quality and long-term DLI programs promote academic achievement and high levels of language proficiency for both language groups. Despite the evidence, leaders from the field of bilingual education have…

Approximately 90 books, published between 1946 and 1969, related to Spanish-speaking people and their culture, are presented in this annotated bibliography. It is intended as a guide for schools wishing to develop literature selections depicting the culture and history of Spanish-speaking people at the elementary level. Books written in both…

Lists advantages of using the initial teaching alphabet for language learning. (RK)

Defines and evaluates the consequences brought about by the increase of Americanisms in the Spanish language. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

Gives a listing of reference books that provides spanish names and that trace the source of the name, note its diffusion and explains the Spanish system of naming. (Author/AM)

Intended for use by those conducting research in Spanish literature, this guide lists selected reference materials in literature from Spain, in Spanish, Galician, and Catalan languages. Annotations in the guide are divided into the following sections: (1) General Encyclopedias (1 annotation); (2) Guides to the Literature (4 annotations); (3)…