This paper was commissioned by the Education Commission of the States to identify the educational needs of Puerto Rican students in the mainland United States. A historical overview of Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and their relationships with mainland United States is presented with a focus on the Puerto Rican emigration to the mainland. The role…

Reading success is closely related to paradigmatic and syntagmatic language responses. It is believed that a child who makes paradigmatic associations communicates and thinks in the language of the teacher while a child who makes syntagmatic responses is hampered in the learning situation. To determine how good (normal) and poor (retarded) readers…

It is estimated that approximately 15% of the school children in the United States have reading problems, while only about 1% of students in Japan have such difficulties. A joint study was conducted by researchers in the two countries to identify possible causes for this difference. Subjects were 61 Japanese kindergarten students in an urban…

A computer-assisted analysis was conducted of the capitalization skills taught in nine series of language arts textbooks. The results indicated that while textbook authors generally agreed on the inclusion of certain basic capitalization skills, significant differences existed with regard to introductory levels, grade-level sequencing, the amount…

This guide presents a two phase program for teaching communication skills in the elementary grades. The first phase focuses on teaching the conditions that constitute an effective group and the communications skills necessary for effective group relationships. Definitions of terms are presented to teachers as well as suggestions for teaching and…

This booklet describes 50 Title I programs that have been validated by the Education Division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as exemplary. The descriptions, written originally for use in newspapers and by radio and television stations, tell how the programs operate, what makes them successful, and how the students are…

A study was conducted using standard open-ended cloze testing to establish a criterion for the utility of content reading passages for students in grades four, seven, and ten in the subject areas of language arts and social studies. Passages were selected from books, novels, and textbooks required in these courses. It was found that most of the…

This paper reviews several studies that have sought to explain the role of nonverbal communication in education contexts. The specific areas that are explored include kinesics, eye contact, paralanguage, classroom environment, proxemics, and physical appearance. After reviewing research in these areas, the paper examines the research conclusions…

Difficulties in implementing the EXCHECK/Voice Oriented Curriculum Author Language (VOCAL) System, a general program designed for university-level computer-assisted instruction in mathematics and science written in the VOCAL language, are presented in terms of informal mathematical procedures, audio and prosodic features, and a schedule of…

This document promotes computer symbolic mathematics and computer algebra as ideal instructional materials for mathematics, science, and engineering students. Further, computer algebra is viewed as appropriate for all students throughout the mathematics curriculum, by serving a vast area of mutual reinforcement and cross-motivation between…

This book is a day-by-day record of how and why four- and five-year olds learn, described by a teacher who uses many of the Montessori materials, and emphasizes the discipline and attraction to learning that come from within. The first chapter relates the teacher's theories on education, while the remaining five chapters consist of diary entries…

This training manual for preschool teachers explains the philosophy behind several non-sexist teaching techniques and offers concrete suggestions for implementing non-sexist educational practices and concepts in the classroom. Section One provides a rationale for non-sexist preschool education and reviews organized efforts leading to the…

The history of three non-Latin based orthographies--Chinese, Japanese, and Korean--is reviewed in this paper. The characteristics of the three orthographies are examined regarding the ease of learning to read with these varied symbol systems. Attention is given to the incidence of reading disability in different orthographies, and research is…

One-half-page resumes of a variety of tests applicable to secondary level bilingual education have been compiled here. The following areas are covered, with the number of tests in each area in parentheses: multiple skills (5), writing (2), listening and speaking (5), grammar (4), reading (2), aptitude (3), occupational interest (4), general…

Developed by a Pennsylvania school district for grades seven and eight, this guide is one of two documents outlining an English program and emphasizes capitalization, punctuation, parts of speech, sentence patterns, usage, and literature. For each grade level and topic, the guide lists the program objectives, instructional objectives,…