The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is a private, nonprofit organization with over 50 years' experience in the application of research on language and culture to educational and societal concerns. CAL carries out its mission to improve communication through better understanding of language and culture by engaging in a variety of projects in…

Highlights the ways in which immigrant children from the Chinese mainland are helped to assimilate into Hong Kong society. Discusses programs to meet the challenges of securing age-appropriate school placements; adjusting to a new education system and curricula; adapting to a new school and social environment; facing segregation, prejudice, and…

Outlines the response of public agencies to the Asian immigrant community in Dallas, Texas, and problems that exist for these immigrants. Relates the story of the creation of the "Blue Dragons" Explorer Post that provides social support and service opportunities for Asian-American teens. Includes suggestions for educators from "Blue…

Friendly House was created in 1920 to promote literacy among new families entering the United States. An analysis of the afterschool and the summer-school programs offered by Friendly House is offered here. The study includes information on these programs, as well as the policies, practices, and procedures used in providing for the needs of…

The document presents a radio script about resettlement programs for contemporary Soviet Jewish refugees and problems and expectations concerning their acculturation and integration into American life. Part of a series entitled "Options in Education," it was produced by National Public Radio and the Institute for Educational Leadership.…

Latvian education efforts for culture preservation and language maintenance in the United States can be seen mainly in the form of supplementary schools. The origin of these schools and the growth of the central organization of Latvian education is traced in this paper. (Author/EB)

A study of nine federally funded Special Alternative Instructional Programs for language-minority students in which English was the primary language of instruction showed that the incorporation of students' native languages in instruction need not be an all-or-nothing phenomenon. The complexities of using students' native languages in schooling…

The innovative newcomer program concept, developed as a model to meet the needs of the growing limited-English-proficient (LEP) population in American classrooms, is described. Newcomer programs function as temporary stopovers for recently arrived LEP immigrant and refugee students. They operate on the assumption that LEP newcomer students need a…

This directory, produced by the California Tomorrow Immigrant Students Project, describes 75 model programs for the education of immigrant children in California. Program descriptions are grouped around the following nine theme chapters: (1) "The First Steps: Orientation/Assessment and Newcomer Support" focuses on orienting immigrant…

This book reflects experiences during the first 3 years of an ongoing effort to examine the experiences of newcomer Asian parents as they encounter U.S. public schools. The second phase of the project continues program activities at schools in Chicago (Illinois), Des Moines (Iowa), Minneapolis (Minnesota), and Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and now…

This study, originally published in German in 1983, describes results of a comparative evaluation of Commission of the European Communities projects for migrant children's education in four countries (Belgium, England, France, and the Netherlands). The report begins with a discussion of the European Communities' 1970 directive on the teaching of…

This book examines the solutions that various members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations have attempted to the question of whether schooling of immigrant and language minority children should be organized with the intention of assimilating them into the dominant culture, or whether their cultural and…

An approach used to help bridge the distance between home and school for bilingual/bicultural immigrant families is described. First, the various roles of the classroom teacher as cultural storyteller, cultural healer, and cultural worker in the relationship between the schools and homes of bilingual students is explored, drawing on recent…

The Students of Limited English Proficiency (SLEP) program of the Honolulu School District (Hawaii) is designed to help the large number of limited-English-speaking immigrants adjust to the American culture in the Hawaiian setting by acquiring basic communication skills for regular classroom participation and school activities. The program is…

Citing 1,019 sources particularly relevant to Spanish speaking groups and readily available in most libraries, this bibliography is divided into 3 parts: index categories, topical index with authors, and complete references listed alphabetically. Although emphasis is on the Spanish speaking groups in the United States, studies on other linguistic…