An increase in the number of bilingual schools has lead to a greater need for properly qualified and adequately trained teachers of school children of Hispanic heritage from non-English speaking homes. Characteristics of a good bilingual program are explored in this paper with occasional reference to writings of Andersson and Boyer, Fishman, and…

This guide gives information on reference sources for foreign periodicals and also lists a brief selection of weekly and monthly publications covering subjects related to the general sciences, economics, industry, politics, and the social aspects of the country in question. Section 1 lists principal, general guides to bibliographies of foreign…

This handbook illustrates how the classroom teacher can make efficient use of tests, discusses the main purposes tests can serve, treats principal kinds of testing devices especially useful in language instruction, and includes a section on the interpretation of test results. Chapters include: (1) the importance and place of testing in the foreign…

This final report describes the fourth year of the New Nursery School Program (NNS) set up for environmentally deprived, Spanish-surnamed 3- and 4-year-old children. The school was organized as an autotelic environment which the children (15 in each of two sessions) attended for 3 hours a day. Upon entering, children were pretested on the Wechsler…

This teacher's guide for the instructional system known as "Beginning Spanish" instructs the teacher in the rationale and administration of the course. Commentary is directed to: (1) general information, (2) use of equipment, (3) student check lists, (4) systems format, (5) the teacher's role, and (6) the administration and scoring of Spanish…

A synthesis of literature on the Mexican Americans of Texas and the Southwest provides an overview of the general research findings. The volume is intended as a resource for teachers and others who work with Mexican American children. Part 1 is a concise history of the population. Part II presents a synthesis of current literature on the social…

The problems of recruiting Mexican American students into colleges and universities are pointed out in these two papers. Edington's paper (title given) discusses teacher education, curriculum development, counseling programs, college entrance requirements, and the need for change and study in these areas with regard to Spanish-speaking students.…

Major objectives of a proposed New Jersey cooperative project are (1) to establish 10 first-grade demonstration bilingual and bicultural classes in strategic target areas throughout the state (to help Spanish-speaking children extend skills in their native language and in English); (2) to prepare preservice and inservice workshops for personnel in…

The minority groups of Colorado--past, present, and future--are investigated in detail in this report by the Civil Rights Commission of Colorado. The commission uses the 1967 U. S. Civil Rights Commission report and the Kerner Report to clarify the problems of minority groups and to establish a foundation for programs combating these problems.…

The material in this article is part of a larger study of resource inputs and achievement outputs of Philadelphia's public school students being conducted by the Department of Research of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The affects of various school inputs (teacher quality and equipment, for example), socioeconomic inputs (family income…

The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title VII Bilingual Program operated at the Bilingual Mini School, located within Public School 59. The program completed its second year of operation in June 1973. During its first year in existence, the bilingual program served kindergarten and grade 1 children. Grade 2 classes were added during the 1972-73…

Dia de Dar Gracias (Thanksgiving) is the subject of this primary level unit. The unit objectives are to: (1) know about El Dia de Dar Gracias as it is celebrated in the United States; (2) know how the Mayas celebrated it; (3) understand the context of the stories in the unit; (4) know about the main food used, the turkey; (5) distinguish other…

Assembled to aid high school literature teachers in exploring the epic with their students, materials in this book approach the epic as a product of a specific culture which presents vivid pictures of earlier societies. Following the introduction and the opening essay, "The Role of the Supernatural in the Epic," chapters are grouped under the…

An informal survey, conducted by the Colorado State Library, revealed few real efforts to serve the Spanish-surnamed beyond the minimal provision of Spanish language materials. To improve this situation, Colorado State College held a federally supported institute in June, 1969. Eight teams of participants were selected for the program, a team…

The immediate purpose of the 1973 tri-state (Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin) Adult Basic Education workshop, a Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages project, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (four and one-half days) was the training or retraining of teachers in English as a second dialect or English as a foreign language to…