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Tran, Bach-Tuyet Pham; And Others – 1986
Four papers address cultural issues related to the involvement of limited-English-proficient parents in public schools in the United States. "Cultural Issues in Indochinese Parent Involvement" (Bach-Tuyet (Pham) Tran) outlines the linguistic, social, and practical barriers to Indochinese immigrant parent involvement and makes suggestions for…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Elementary Secondary Education, Family English Literacy, Hispanic Americans
Download full textHughes, Phillip – 1988
This report offers a comprehensive global view of future directions for teacher education. The first section discusses factors indicating the need for change. Education is seen as an agent of social change with various national approaches having common concerns and facing similar key issues to be resolved. In the second section, changes and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedReyhner, Jon; And Others – Rural Educator, 1995
Inservice programs are needed to make rural teachers of Native American students more responsive to their unique needs and to increase educational relevance by integrating material from Native culture. Suggestions for teacher inservice programs include Native educational history, dropout research, sociocultural factors, language development, and…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Dropout Research
Helge, Doris – 1991
Studies conducted by the National Rural Development Institute (NRDI) indicate that migrant students have a higher school dropout rate than non-migrant students. In addition, rural migrant students experience higher levels of family dysfunction and abuse, teen pregnancy, emotional difficulties such as depression or low self-esteem, poverty,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Bilingual Education Office. – 1986
A handbook for teachers and administrators dealing with limited-English-speaking native Pilipino-speaking students in the schools gives information on the unique historical, sociocultural, and linguistic characteristics of this group and provides information about educational resources. It begins with an overview of Filipino immigration history,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Swanson, Maria Medina – 1974
This overview of bilingual education concerns definitions, rationale, program and student characteristics, background in the United States, data on bilingual programs, the sociocultural context, the politics of bilingual education, the development of specific bilingual programs, and studies and implications for the foreign language profession.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Community Involvement
