This study hypothesized that test taking strategies for reading comprehension tests can be taught by classroom instruction and that the knowledge gained would enable a test wise student to obtain a higher score on a standardized test than an equally knowledgeable student who lacks test sophistication. (Author/AM)

CHILDREN INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT COMMUNITY INCLUDED A DIVERSITY OF ETHNIC GROUPS. NEGROES REPRESENTED THE LARGEST SINGLE GROUP, BUT INCREASING NUMBERS OF PUERTO RICAN FAMILIES WERE MOVING INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF PHILADELPHIA. THE CHILDREN OF THIS AREA WERE CHARACTERIZED BY THEIR FAILURE TO MEET PROJECTED GROWTH EXPECTANCIES IN CURRICULUM…

The continua model of biliteracy offers a framework to situate research, teaching, and language planning in linguistically diverse settings. The continua model is revisited from the perspective of international cases of educational policy and practice in linguistically diverse settings, and from a critical perspective that seeks to make explicit…

Provides the text of a newspaper account on drug abuse in a North Philadelphia Puerto Rican community. Focuses on the effect this illegal activity has on the lives of neighborhood residents. (LS)

Reports on research conducted in poor Puerto Rican households in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) that shows the complex relationships between household members' survival strategies, residential mobility, home-school connections, and students' learning. Results from five families show that household stability is the strongest factor affecting students'…

The continua model of bilteracy offers a framework in which to situate research,teaching, and language planning in linguistically diverse settings. Using this model, and citing examples of Cambodian and Puerto Rican students in Philadelphia's public schools as illustrative of the challenge facing American educators, this paper suggests that the…

This report presents the findings of a preliminary assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) programs, the welfare-to-work centerpiece of the Family Support Act, for moving Puerto Rican welfare recipients closer to self-sufficiency. Programs in Newark (New Jersey), New York City, and Philadelphia…

During the months from February 1977 to December 1978, Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc., conducted an oral history project to produce a cross-generational comparison of Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). The project was designed to train young people to be perceptive human beings who were sensitive to their environment and especially aware…

Illustrates the development of a news story on drug abuse in a North Philadelphia Puerto Rican community from the reporter's viewpoint. Relates difficulties in acquiring information, getting interviews, and writing the final product. Shares reactions to the final product. (LS)

An assessment of welfare-related experiences and perspectives of Puerto Rican Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients in New York City (New York), Newark (New Jersey), and Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) was conducted. Data were developed through 8 self-contained focus groups involving 63 participants. An additional focus group was…

This report describes a program which grew out of a study that explored writing and literacy skills in Anglo, Black, and Hispanic high school students in North Philadelphia. Section One describes writing in the lives of adolescents as viewed within the home, community, noninstitutional, and broader sociopolitical settings. Particular emphasis is…

Successful delivery of mental health services to Hispanic Americans depends on understanding the sociocultural variables that produce conflict for this group. For Puerto Ricans on the United States mainland, identity problems arising from Puerto Rico's historical and social circumstances are aggravated by the need to deal with cultural and…

A 3-year longitudinal study of Puerto Rican youth (who were tenth graders during the first year of the study) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sought to identify determinants of decisions to remain in school or drop out, and to investigate delinquency among this population. Among girls, the study found no correlation between delinquency and dropping…

In early 1972, the Pennsylvania State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights turned its attention to the growing Puerto Rican population in Philadelphia, a population estimated to be anywhere from 30,000 to 125,000. A two-day open meeting or informal hearing was held on June 6 and 7, 1972, to look at two major problem areas for…