In this article, the author provides a brief response to Claire Kramsch's paper. While the author agrees in many ways with her arguments, he also wants to point to a potential contradiction between two positions: On the one hand, Kramsch suggests that in promoting foreign language learning language educators run the danger of essentialising the…

During a class discussion, a professor placed a quote on the overhead by Lewis Terman, former Stanford professor, APA president, and vicar of IQ testing and gifted education in America. The passage stressed that Mexicans and Blacks are born morons, not capable of learning, and should be segregated from Anglos in special classes. In addition, in…

First in a three-part series of case studies tracing the impact of the "Anglo Revolution" on New Mexico, this article deals with copper mining in New Mexico, particularly the Santa Rita del Cobre copper mine. (NQ)

Examines item bias on Forms L and M of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised in Anglo-American and Mexican-American children (N=132). Analyses indicated bias as measured by differences in item difficulty in both groups; however, there was no clear pattern of items that were more difficult for either group. (LLL)

American Indian contributions to the development of America are described. (FF)

A 2-phase study, performed to assess an Educational Opportunities Program (EOP) at a college, contrasted academic performance and attitudes of EOP Chicanos, regularly admitted Chicanos, and Anglos. (NQ)

Differences found among 1,200 school children in California with regard to their attachment to the American political community are not large, but divergences that emerge appear consistently. Mexican American children reveal a cultural pride in Mexico supported by an emotional attachment to America. (JB)

Examination of the ecological relationships between the relative size of Hispanic and Anglo populations and their respective poverty rates in the urban Southwest indicates that as the proportion of Hispanics in an area increases, both Hispanics and Anglos at lower socioeconomic levels are negatively affected and Hispanic poverty ratios increase.…

Providing student clients with background information about their prospective Chicano or Anglo counselors may increase the counselor's attractiveness, regardless of his ethnicity. Male counselors appear significantly more attractive as more information is provided about them, although subjects appear to have no preference for counselors of the…

This study examined the relationship between gender, ethnicity, psychosocial stress, and generalized distress in 593 Central American immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Anglo Americans. Stress ratings were highest among female immigrants from Central America. (DM)

Interaction of gifted individuals with their society is explored in two different cultures, the Hopi and the dominant Anglo culture of the United States. Described are the role various societal ethos play in the careers of its gifted and how each society's treatment of its gifted affects its own ongoing development. (JDD)

The essay compares data on family organization and structure for Chicanos in Los Angeles during the period 1850-1880 with similar data on the European immigrant and native born in Detroit, Michigan. (Author/NQ)