This study analyzes the day care-related perceptions of a group of low-income women who voluntarily enrolled their children in group day care in order to obtain or maintain employment, and explores the employment experiences of these women. Face-to-face unstructured interviews were conducted by trained black or Hispanic interviewers with 157 New…

The first conference focused on specific approaches in the offering of minority studies (both as a collective unit and as separate entities) and on problems of "Anglo" educators in medium-sized Midwestern institutions. Topic panels focusing on various literatures and on specific minority groups were held at the second conference.…

The racial attitudes of junior and senior high school students in Milwaukee were examined for students in integrated and segregated schools. Black, white, and Latin students in selected public schools were interviewed in the spring of 1974 and reinterviewed in the spring of 1975. Approach/avoidance and integration/separatism dimensions emerged…

Since 1966 racial/ethnic data has been collected annually from all public elementary and secondary schools in New York State. This report presents such data for the 1974-75 school year. The tabular data include the: (1) students' racial/ethnic distribution for the State's major school districts of Buffalo, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, and…

This study focuses on the semantic development of individual lexical items, as viewed from a semantic features perspective. It involves four narrow semantic domains, a sample of elementary school-children and their teachers, and two native language groups, English and Spanish. Semantic development is studied through the process of equivalence…

Three methods for second language data collection are compared: free composition, picture description and translation. The comparison is based on percentage of errors in a grammatical category and in a source category. Most results obtained from the free compositions and picture descriptions tended to be similar. Greater variation was found for…

Because of its own concern about the effectiveness of public education in New Brunswick and in response to a similar concern expressed by different community groups, the New Brunswick Board of Education engaged the Institute of Field Studies of Teachers College, Columbia University to study its educational system and directed it to examine the…

This manual contains some of the history of the project "Initial Reading in Spanish for Bilingual Children," undertaken by the U.S. Office of Education in the spring of 1970. The objective of the project was to gather detailed information and to produce a descriptive analysis of the methodologies employed by teachers in the teaching of initial…

The black and brown minorities which constitute about 16 percent of the total U.S. population today are demanding equal opportunities and quality education. The fact that more and more of these students are attending high schools and colleges will accelerate these demands. The demands are not only to reinforce their own ethnic heritage, but also…

This listing of Spanish-English bilingual/bicultural materials for the elementary level is the end result of a materials evaluation conducted by the El Paso Public Schools. The catalog is divided into sections by type of media: kits, sound filmstrips, filmstrips, recordings, slides and transparencies, games and models, and books are discussed.…

In early 1972, the Pennsylvania State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights turned its attention to the growing Puerto Rican population in Philadelphia, a population estimated to be anywhere from 30,000 to 125,000. A two-day open meeting or informal hearing was held on June 6 and 7, 1972, to look at two major problem areas for…

Since 1966 racial/ethnic data has been collected annually from all public elementary and secondary schools in New York State. Such data is presented in eight tables. Table 1 gives the 1973-74 racial/ethnic distribution of public school students for the State's major school districts (Buffalo, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers), for the…

The Atlanta Public Schools operated a pilot project under the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) from July 1, 1973 through June 30, 1974. The pilot project was subdivided into two parts. Part One, the Camp Learning Center Project, proposed the establishment of interdisciplinary educational, interracial, and cultural experiences in a camp setting for…

During 1974 approximately 13 percent of the 2.8 million students enrolled in Texas schools represented a concentrated effort to serve educationally disadvantaged pupils with the greatest needs on campuses eligible for Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I funds. Of these funds, 75 percent was expended for instructional activities…

This is book one in a series of beginning readers in Spanish for preschool and grade one. The program is designed to prepare children to read in Spanish by teaching the sound-symbol relationship in sequential order with simple reading selections. This book introduces the consonants "m,""p,""s,""l," and the…