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Poblete, Patricia – 1990
This report describes a 3-year project (1987-1990) implemented to assist migrant families and their children in transition to public school kindergarten and developmental kindergarten classes. The project served 30 children and 24 families in Ft. Pierce, Florida, approximately 75 percent of whom were Hispanic and 25 percent were Haitian. Goals…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Ethnic Groups, Kindergarten, Migrant Education

Cobb, Jeanne B. – Reading Horizons, 2001
Describes a program in which preservice teachers served as tutors for at-risk first, second, and third graders in a tutorial model incorporating play and phonological awareness activities using puppets and comprehension strategy instruction using manipulatives. Finds that the program improved reading achievement for children at the first grade…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy

McConnell, Beverly – 1976
The early education program uses paraprofessional teachers to provide bilingual multicultural education to children of migrant and seasonal farm workers. The program operates on an interstate and interdistrict basis. Interstate migrant children from south Texas are followed from their home base community to northern locations. By working…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Early Childhood Education
Miller, Harry L. – 1977
The program's long-range purpose was to enhance the Native American student's self esteem, and hence improve his ability to take advantage of opportunities in education and career development. Specific objectives were to develop in Native American students a strong sense of their heritage and culture; to operate an informational resource center…
Descriptors: Academic Education, American Indians, Career Guidance, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Rinnander, Elizabeth; Spinelli, Maria-Lydia – 1987
Los Angeles Pierce College (LAPC) serves many Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) students, most of them refugees, for whom English is a second language. In the past, LAPC provided limited English tutoring based on a conversational approach to supplement the more academically oriented ESL instruction available on campus. In response…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Community Colleges, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)
McConnell, Beverly – 1977
Project objectives included: the children would increase their grade equivalent (GE) score in reading and math by one or more months GE for each 20 days of attendance; children dominant in Spanish would have a higher mean score in Spanish than norm group children of comparable age after 100 or more days of attendance; the children's bilingual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Early Childhood Education
Osicki, Kenneth J. – 1976
Detailing program activities of the Specialized Services for American Indian Children and Youth Program in the Cleveland Public Schools during the final quarter and summer sessions of 1976, this report presents the following: (1) Procedures (use of a coordinator, aides, a clerk, and a full time tutor working in conjunction with a parent committee…
Descriptors: Accountability, Activities, Administration, American Indians

LeBlanc, Leona B. – College Teaching, 1992
The design, implementation, and evaluation of a self-paced course in first-year college French are described, focusing on student choice in deciding which of four language skills (listening/speaking, writing, reading, or culture) they would concentrate on. Considered are course organization, use of assistants and student tutors, and course…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Course Evaluation
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1984
In 1983-84, Johnson O'Malley Indian education programs operated in 17 public schools and 2 tribal preschools in Washington state, serving 1,386 students with a budget of $222,421. The overall objectives of the programs for Indian students were to increase reading and math proficiency, improve the high school graduation rate, promote cultural and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Attendance Patterns, Cultural Awareness, Dropouts
Ching, Noelani; Mahuka, Ruth – 1994
The Waikiki Lifelong Learning Center (WLLC) project was undertaken to establish a literacy consortium of visitor industry businesses and the University of Hawaii at Manoa and to develop/implement an instructional program that included bilingual/English-as-a-second language (ESL) and General Educational Development (GED)/pre-GED components. After…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Bilingual Education, Community Colleges
Hunter, Ruth L.; Ratliffe, Sharon A. – 1991
Since 1980, the percentage of ethnic minority students at Golden West College (GWC) has nearly doubled. To meet the English language needs of this rapidly growing student population, a speaking and listening course was introduced into the curriculum in 1982, followed by a pronunciation course in 1985. Both courses were part of the…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Community Colleges, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement