One of a series of books written in Spanish about Spanish speaking children, this is the rhyming story of a little boy whose classmates do not want to associate with him because he has no respect for their personal property. When he realizes his mistake, he makes many friends. Colored pictures illustrate the story. (CM)

The purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation of bilingual education programs in Peru. The first part of the paper consists of a general discussion of Peruvian history and the problem of native language suppression under Spanish colonialism and, later, a Spanish dominant independent government. Educational policies and the…

Developed as part of a multicultural research project in the San Diego Community College District, this booklet presents the findings of a 10-member research team about various elements of Mexican-American culture. The areas covered are: (1) historical background on the Mexican heritage of the United States from pre-colonial times to the present…

The articles on culture in the Northeast Conference Report are intended especially for those teaching French, German, Italian, or Spanish. Generally they provide an update in the target language about current concerns including the family, education, economics, politics, and other matters of interest to second language learners. The following…

Item bias, when present in a multiple-choice test, can be detected by appropriate analyses of the persons x items scoring matrix. Five related schemes for the statistical analysis of bias were applied to a widely used, primary skills multiple-choice test which was administered in either its English- or Spanish-language version at each of the two…

The Language Assessment Battery was administered as a pre- and post-test to 731 students (mostly Spanish-speaking) in bilingual programs in New Jersey. In all grades tested, results consistently showed that third-year bilingual students outscored first and second year students in English language skills. This supports the contention that bilingual…

The Montgomery County Maryland, public school system utilizes a bilingual assessment team as a means toward achieving nonbiased, cross cultural assessment to identify handicaps in limited English proficient students. Special education placement begins with referral from a teacher, parent, counselor, or the student himself; moves to consultation…

This report presents the results of a study of the relationship between self concept and academic achievement and between self concept and intellectual development in minority group school children. The subjects were second grade black and Hispanic children in an urban school. The Stanford Achievement Test was used to measure academic achievement…

After reviewing literature on Puerto Rican immigration and the mental health of Puerto Ricans residing in the mainland U.S., this paper describes a study conducted to determine the effects of migration on the self concept of forty young adult Puerto Ricans. Subjects were selected from an alternative high school in the Bronx, New York, and were…

A variable rule of /s/ deletion that operates in many varieties of Spanish is examined. A descriptive apparatus is posited that may be helpful in systematizing quantitative data from studies of phonological variability. Empirical data from the speech of informants show that ordering relationships among constraints on variable phonological rules…

This report presents a set of tested procedures designed to yield current estimates of housing demand potential among black and Spanish speaking minority groups in United States metropolitan housing market areas during periods between Federal censuses. To produce estimates for the black homeseeker market, the analyst first "ages" the black…