The report presents data on demographic, social and economic characteristics of 2.8 million persons 14 years of age and over who did farmwork for cash wages or salary in 1976, and summarizes some of the more pertinent changes in the size, composition, and employment patterns of hired farmworkers. Data, taken from a survey conducted by the Bureau…

A summary report is presented of the first of two interviews with a random sample of parents of kindergarten and third grade students in the project. Undertaken as part of the evaluation of the Parental Involvement Component of the ESAA Bilingual/Bicultural Project, the interviews had a twofold objective: (1) to measure the degree of home support…

This is an informative listing for educators, librarians, and others interested in materials for bilingual multicultural education. Items are listed according to: title, author, subject, and publisher/distributor indexes. The following are among the topics covered: (1) African and Afro-American culture; (2) Native American cultures; (3) arts and…

A bilingual and bicultural organization, CISCO (Chicano-Indian Study Center of Oregon) assists students to escape the poverty cycle through vocational training, academic programs, and general guidance counseling. A major CISCO goal is to provide vocational training in the health care industry in conjunction with a program meeting the health needs…

Data collected during the Anchor Test Study norming phase were used to investigate substantive relationships between reading achievement and school, classroom, and pupil variables. School characteristics, such as location, public or private, socioeconomic level, and percentage minority enrollment, were found to be related to achievement in reading…

Due to the large numbers of children from Spanish-speaking homes, many districts send both English and Spanish written communication to parents and community members. Therefore this booklet, a Spanish translation of "Learning: A Cooperative Adventure" (ED 119 868), was prepared to provide parents and preschool and kindergarten staff members with…

This paper reviews some significant research on ethnic variables as they relate to the process of schooling such as ethnicity and performance. Particular ethnic groups such as Spanish speaking subgroups in New York City, Mexican Americans, blacks, and American Indians are then discussed in order to provide a body of information as well as to…

This booklet contains selected presentations from the 1975 Annual Conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The collection is addressed to people who are interested in improving the quality of growth-supporting services available to children and their families in the United States. Titles are: "Head…

This report includes the following addresses to the conference: (1) "Some Socio-linguistic Considerations in the Teaching of Foreign Languages", (2) "The Case of Afro-Portuguese Literature", (3) "Foreign Language Success Stories--Hackensack Has It!", (4) "On Apes, Poetry, and Language Teaching", (5) "A Sociolinguistic Aspect of Japanese Americans…

This Spanish-language supplementary language arts program focuses on the development of decoding, encoding, comprehension, and interpretation skills, and is oriented toward the Mexican-American child's experience. It is designed for first-grade bilingual programs and as a resource for instruction in Spanish as a second language up to the third…

An innovative approach to language instruction, developed by Felizardo Valencia using "Juan, Maria y Pepe" as a basic text, is contrasted with more traditional audiolingual methodology in a first-year Spanish course. A control group of high school students is instructed with the use of a teacher-operated electric cue board with abbreviated cues…

Language acquisition in bilingual communities is noted to be fundamentally distinct from other types of second language learning. Discussion centers about the multi-dialectal, bilingual speech community of Miami with respect to educational opportunities afforded the city's ethnic groups. The function and achievement of the Spanish Curricula Center…

This manual is designed to introduce teachers to basic principles of language analysis which can be immediately applied to classrooms populated by non-English speaking or language handicapped children. Programed exercises covering major units of study are included with follow-up discussion on: (1) nature of language; (2) attitudes toward language;…

Design and implementation of a bilingual curriculum for Spanish-language dominant children in kindergarten and first grade are reported in this study. The general philosophy of the project is expressed in six sections including: (1) introduction, (2) school environment, (3) hypotheses and experimental design, (4) review of the first year's…

The report covers an investigation of the productivity of land, labor, and capital in Mexican agriculture as a means of clarifying the role played by land-reform, and more specifically its main outcome--the institution of the ejido--in the recent rapid rise of agricultural output in Mexico. The ejido is a form of communal property, although only a…