Project TEACH completed the first year of a three-year program serving 190 newly arrived limited English proficient (LEP) students from the Caribbean, Central America and Cambodia. Virtually all students belonged to low-income families and many had received little formal education in their native countries. The primary goal was to facilitate…

Project PROBE is a multi-site program located in two high schools. It is intended to increase career awareness among approximately 200 Hispanic students and 100 Chinese-speaking students through instruction in content areas, English as a second language (ESL), students' native language, and computer literacy, supplemented by enrichment resources…

In its final year of funding, Project COPE provided instruction in basic skills and career development to 388 students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in grades 9 through 12 at three sites in Brooklyn and the Bronx: 150 Hispanics at John F. Kennedy High School, 150 Haitians at Prospect Heights High School, and 88 Italians at Christopher…

A study of eligibility for freshman admission among California high school graduates was conducted by contacting all schools offering high school diploma programs. The schools were given instructions on selecting a random sample of graduates' transcripts from each graduating class. The 1,180 responding schools submitted 15,973 transcripts, or 6.9%…

This first annual report on Hispanic concerns in New York City offers a demographic analysis of Hispanics in the city and highlights new initiatives that respond to the 1986 recommendations of the Mayor's Commission on Hispanic Concerns. Programs have been implemented and planned for this growing segment of the population in the following areas:…

In 1985 Mayor Edward Koch of New York City appointed a commission to address the concerns of Hispanics. This document is the report of that commission. It describes some of the special problems experienced by Hispanics and sets forth specific recommendations for the city to consider in order to enhance the quality of life for Hispanics. The areas…

This report is the response of New York City to the report of the Mayor's Commission on Hispanic Concerns. After reviewing the Commission's report, the city put various mechanisms in place to address the concerns and implement the recommendations needed to improve the life of Hispanic New Yorkers. An important need expressed by the Commission was…

For the past 5 years, the American Council on Higher Education's Office of Minority Concerns (OMC) has been monitoring the annual progress of minorities in higher education and issuing a report card on the system itself and the country as a whole. The 1986 report takes a more in-depth look at the whole by focusing on the progress of the particular…

A review of the literature on residential segregation reveals that Blacks remain the most segregated group in American cities, despite the more recent arrival of Hispanic and Asian groups. By one measure--the index of dissimilarity with respect to Whites--Blacks are 1.6 times more segregated than Hispanics, and twice as segregated as Asians. Race…

This serial publication covers the period from January to December 1986, citing 308 entries in the field of Chicano Area Studies by the Coleccion Tloque Nahuaque, within the Library of the University of California at Santa Barbara. The materials, published between 1926 and 1986, are listed by categories and presented alphabetically by author. The…

This study explores the characteristics of women and minority artists in 1980 in relation to the U.S. total artist population, other professional workers, and the total work force. Census data for 1980 are used to depict basic demographic characteristics of women and minority artists and to assess their relative economic status in terms of…

The Hispanic Leadership Fellows Program was a 3-year program supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), which sought to identify Hispanic college faculty and professionals who demonstrated the desire and potential to move into middle and top administrative positions in higher education. The 74 candidates in the…

Descriptions of the information and cultural resource centers established by the Los Angeles County (California) Public Library to serve four ethnic populations--American Indians, Asian Pacifics, Blacks, and Chicanos--are presented in this document. Information provided for each individual center includes its history, policies, collection,…

One approach to test bias has focused on identifying the potential variables or factors that may be responsible for bias in a particular test for a particular subgroup. This approach was employed in this study to determine variables which may relate to differential test performance by Anglo and Hispanic students. The test materials used in this…

Articles in this issue of the bulletin of the Hispanic Research Center focus on the problems of collecting demographic and social data in the South Bronx. The introductory article summarizes the contents of this issue. The second (by Lloyd H. Rogler, Osvaldo Barreras, and Rosemary Santana Cooney) is based on the experiences of field workers…