Contents of this collection of articles, originally prepared as messages for citizens and colleagues expressing some of the major concerns regarding the education of blacks in the seventies, by an educational consultant who has taught in the Department of Educational Sociology at Wayne State University, are as follows: (1) Education: Opening the…

The purpose of this study was to make and compare recommendations for developing oral language facility in children pre-K through grade three. Three sources were investigated: selected writers in the field of reading, curricula sent by 32 State Departments of Education, and pertinent ERIC materials. Recommendations dealt with education in general,…

This document reports on a national meeting organized by the State Training Office in Arizona through the combined efforts of Mexican American Systems and the Office of Child Development. The emphasis of the meeting was to encourage implementation of bilingual-bicultural education for Chicanitos at early stages of their development. The first…

The purpose of this study was to establish score equivalencies between the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and its Spanish-language equivalent, the College Board Prueba de Aptitud Academica (PAA). The method of the study involved two phases: the selection of test items equally appropriate for Spanish- and English-speaking students for…

The Cross-Cultural Attitude Inventory provides a means for measuring the degree of positive or negative feeling which Mexican-American and Angle students (ages 3 to 18) have for the two cultures. Present test validity is based on face validity and the rationale behind the item selection and construction procedures. The inventory also provides a…

Five years have elapsed since the International Conference on Malnutrition, Learning, and Behavior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The present Seminar was held to examine progress since then. The following papers were presented and discussed: "Malnutrition and the Nervous System," Donald B. Cheek, A. B. Holt, and E. D. Mellits;…

This book is intended (1) as a supplementary text in college courses in children's literature, (2) as a source of information for educators involved in curriculum development programs in the field of children's literature, (3) as a reference guide for schools and community libraries, and (4) as an aid to parents in guiding their children's…

A computer-assisted instructional system has been implemented in 21 elementary schools in Chicago. The system runs on a UNIVAC 418-III computer which processes concurrently the reading, language arts, and mathematics drill and practice strand programs of the Computer Curriculum Corporation. All students participating qualified under the Elementary…

This report presents a summary of the research designed to develop a psycholinguistics of comprehension and memory for meaningful written prose paragraphs. The approach departs from most previous ones by seeking to formulate an explicit theory, instead of relying on informal qualitative judgments as to paragraph structure, the scoring of data, and…

This document is a first year report on a project which examines the effectiveness of (1) teaching the mother versus teaching the infant, and (2) using a professional versus using a paraprofessional as the intervening agent. Also being studied is the relationship between the sex of the infant and the way he is taught and the effectiveness of…

Four paradoxes appear in research on learning to read: (1) the ability to name letters is a good predictor of reading readiness, yet letter-naming training does not help children learn how to read; (2) visual discrimination is often better in poor readers than in good readers; (3) learning to read two languages is easier than learning to read one;…

The contents of this listing of materials, intended as resources for teachers and other persons concerned with improving the educational opportunities of Puerto Rican pupils on the mainland as well as on the island, are organized in four sections: (1) books: Puerto Rican Culture in English, Puerto Rican Culture in Spanish, and Children's Fiction;…

To improve the impact and relevance of English instruction, this book suggests that films may be used as a springboard for critical analysis much like literary criticism, or they may be used as a medium of education on their own, shaping values, attitudes, and forms of expression. The necessary facilities for a film study program are described and…

The premise advanced by Project P.I.S.C.E.S. (Phoenix Indian School Comprehensive Evaluation for Education of Students) was that physical, educational, and psychological evaluation of students would leave no doubt as to individuals' strengths and weaknesses as these areas relate to learning in a formal academic situation. To complement the…

A supervisor undertaking the demanding task of English curriculum planning for grades 1-12 must recognize that teaching and continuing curriculum development should proceed concurrently in a situation flexible enough to encompass evaluation and change. Consequently, procedures to be considered in curriculum development should include (1) studying…