In testimony before a May 1974 public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, the Director of the Puerto Rican Forum asserts that if the city provided strategically located schools that offered a bilingual program, this would be an incentive for parents to send their children; new meaning must be given to the concept of…

Reports a study which developed a data base concerning the home background of Puerto Rican pupils as it relates to present and potential educational progress; the subjects of the study consisted of 218 Puerto Rican families having children in the public schools of two large cities in Connecticut. (Author/JM)

The focus of this testimony, presented before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, is on the issues that the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund has been involved in over the past couple of years; litigation has been pursued against both school segregation and barriers to public employment against Puerto…

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, emphasizes not only that the first problem that the Puerto Rican community has in New York City is that of language but that there is a new migration of Haitians (who speak French), Greeks, and groups of Chinese from different parts of Asia.…

This study suggests that Asian American twelfth grade students possess a more ongoing positive reevaluation of the process of education than do Puerto Rican American twelfth grade students. Puerto Rican students, unlike Asian American students, do not as yet view school achievement as important. (Author/AM)

As minority-group enrollment grows, the patterns of increasing academic retardation in a school are not fixed: indeed, there are drastic changes in the patterns which cast serious doubt on the prevalent conceptions held by both scholars and practicing professionals. (Author/JM)