How do size of communities and varying socioeconomic levels affect educational success? Is there a relationship between these factors and success in learning? This report is an attempt to look at National Assessment findings over the first four years, beginning in 1969 and ending in 1973. The National Assessment of Educational Progress is an…

The four periods discussed in this publication cover the patterns of Spanish emigration to the New World, mainly on the regional level and in terms of percentages. The effects of this emigration on the various Spanish American dialects are discussed. In the initial period (1493-1519), the largest single group, in every year and on all major…

This handbook contains 35 brief activity guides designed to be used by parents at home with their 4-year-old children in conjunction with the Saturday School Program. The aim of the Home Phase of the program is to provide learning experiences in two ways: (1) through Home Teaching Visits involving the Saturday School teacher, neighborhood children…

As an answer to the problems posed by the traditional grade level approach to language arts study, the continuous progress program is centered on specific areas of instruction, with courses or blocks within each area especially designed to provide for students' individual differences. This document consists of an explanation of the program, a…

Evaluated during an 8-week period were the effects of three instructional reading methods for 36 reading retarded students (grades 4-6) with differing degrees of visual function difficulties (perceptual impairment rather than visual acuity problems). Ss were divided into two groups according to their high or low degree of visual function…

This third edition of a bibliography originally published in 1963 under the title "Puerto Rico" is a selected list of significant materials in both Spanish and English. The title of this new edition, "Borinquen," is the Spanish form of the original Indian name of the island which was later called Puerto Rico. The contents are…

Presented are approximately 110 lesson plans for six mental age levels (from 0-9 months to 3 1/2-4 1/2 years) to teach language, gross motor skills, and manipulative skills to severely and profoundly retarded children. Provided for each lesson is information on the experience area (whether motor or language), the dominant modality used, materials…

Presented is a working paper which reviews the research on learning, language, social behavior, and curriculum for moderately retarded children IQs from 30 to 50 and provides a bibliography of approximately 1,000 items. The review of the research covers learning processes of the moderately retarded in sections on reinforcement, discrimination…

Capitalizing on the resources available in an urban city block, this resource guide for the emotionally handicapped (K-6) presents a resource list and objectives and activities relative to teaching language arts (reading, English, listening, speaking, and writing). The resource list is comprised of approximately 150 physical facilities (e.g.,…

This resource book on Spanish and English names, origins, and meanings gives the teacher background material for developing bilingual classroom activities. Knowledge of one's name is important for developing self-concept in a bilingual-bicultural education program. Section one contains a history and development of surnames. Section two traces the…

Linguistics can have useful applications in elementary and secondary language arts instruction, in a number of areas of skill development. The issue of student motivation is involved with the form of language used--standard or nonstandard--and educators may adopt the linguistic view that all forms of language have value and their use depends on…

The feasibility of developing cooperative arrangements for sharing exotic foreign language serial titles among the health sciences libraries of California was investigated. Preliminary circulation counts indicated that 74 percent of the 77 titles counted had circulated twice a year or less and that the health sciences libraries do maintain…

This paper argues that the origin of the tonal accents in Low German, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian can be explained on the basis of segmental circumstances, that they may be considered as secondary in the historical development of these languages, and that they arise when the redundant tonal transition in centering diphthongs becomes distinctive…

Utilizing Talcott Parsons' data from a 1967 study of 4 South Texas counties, the present study involves 596 Mexican American high school sophomores and is based on Parsons' assertion that Spanish American subculture is characterized by the particularism-ascription value pattern. In keeping with this, the present study hypothesized that degree of…

Twenty mothers of culturally disadvantaged children took part in a program of self-help which was both child- and mother-centered. Two groups of ten mothers each met weekly with two staff members over an 8-month period and were trained to tutor their infants (1 to 2-years-old) in their homes. Fifteen of the initial 20 mothers remained in the…