This study examined the effectiveness, integrity, and acceptability of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation (CBC) with families and teachers of Hispanic children at risk for development of behavior problems. CBC is a four-step problem-solving approach (problem identification, problem analysis, treatment implementation, and treatment evaluation) that…

The Elementary School Proficiency Assessment (ESPA) is New Jersey's test for fourth graders. It is designed to give the school information about how well students are achieving in the areas required by New Jersey's Core Curriculum Content Standards. This guide offers parents, students, and teachers information about the ESPA. The parent…

The resources described in this annotated bibliography are selected to help those working at Hispanic serving institutions (institutions with at least a 25% Hispanic student population) and other institutions that serve Hispanic students. The bibliography highlights literature about recruitment and retention of Hispanic students. The resources are…

This digest describes the use of thematic, communicative language teaching in the K-8 foreign language classroom. Such theme-based curricula can reinforce or extend the content of the regular classroom curriculum and give coherence to language lessons. Themes for curriculum units can be derived from many sources. Teachers should choose themes that…

Reports a study aimed at determining the relative capacity of selected Latino student's Spanish and English to transmit an abstract and conceptual communication; 53 students from a junior high school in the southwest were asked to define 13 words taken from the revised Stanford Binet-vocabulary list in either English or Spanish. (Author/JM)

Special labor force report on graduates and dropouts shows more at work, fewer in college. (Editor)

The intention of this paper is to describe the development of an Hispano-American culture in New York, and to indicate how the politicization of ethnicity which results is affecting the New York City schools. (Author)

Paper presented in March 1971, at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, La. (VM)

A description of the Language Arts program in Hartford, Michigan, one of the largest migrant centers in the state. (RY)

A discussion of the problems U.S. librarians and educators face in dealing with Spanish-speaking children and adults; and a description of Project LEER, a program to aid school and public libraries in the selection, procurement, and processing of books in Spanish. (JB)

Argues that the schools have failed minority group children, that a major cause of this has been a failure to understand the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of such children, and that there must be increased attention given to training educational personnel to bring about this understanding' if education for minority children is to improve."…