Begun in the summer of 1953, the New Mexico Developmental Education Project was to: study the social and emotional development of American Indian children in public schools; discover their interests, needs, and abilities using exploratory media; develop a language arts program that would be functional for all children; develop learning experiences…

The low birth weight criterion and other factors used for entry in 1971 into the Responsive Environment Program for Spanish-American Children (RESPAC), yielded predictions of school failure for nearly all RESPAC students. A significant finding of the 10-year follow-up study was that 86 percent of RESPAC students had normal school progress. (JHZ)

The study assessed the self-concept of academic ability among 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th grade Indian children, compared their level of self-concept with that of other children enrolled in the same classes to find out the role of socioeconomic and ethnic background in determining the level of self-concept, and examined the factors that correlated…

TITLE I MONIES UNDER THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT WERE AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR OF 1965-66. IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE FUNDS FOR WHICH A LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS ELIGIBLE UNDER THIS LAW, EACH DISTRICT HAS TO SUBMIT A PROJECT APPLICATION THAT WOULD MEET THE SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF ITS EDUCATIONALLY…

DATA FOR THIS PAPER, PRESENTED AT THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHERN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY AT ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA ON APRIL 17, 1964, WERE DERIVED FROM THE AUTHOR'S RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AMONG THE SPANISH SPEAKING PEOPLE OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO AND FROM HIS PARTICIPATION IN COUNTY AND REGIONAL PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS. THE…

The outreach activities component to REPSAC, an extremely successful early childhood bilingual intervention program in Clovis, New Mexico, enabled the project to provide replication services to various local education agencies requesting such services. During 1976-77, services included the training of selected teachers and aides to acquire…

Traditional definitions of American literature generally include only that literature which grew out of the English enterprise in America; few concessions have been made to other ethnic elements in the literary history of this country. But as British literary roots flourished in new American soil, so did their Hispanic counterparts to yield a…

THIS CENSUS OF THE RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN IN CALIFORNIA WAS PREPARED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAWS, POLICIES, AND REGULATIONS OF THE GOVERNING RACIAL AND ETHNIC BALANCE. IT IS ALSO TO BE USED AS A FRAME OF REFERENCE FOR COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, AND…

The Materials Acquisition Project (MAP) was founded in 1970 under E.S.E.A. Title VII to collect educational materials published in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries for assistance and use in bilingual education programs in the U.S. MAP believes in parity in all aspects of bilingual-bicultural education and offers guidelines for such an…

In 1975-76, an outreach activities component enabled REPSAC (a highly successful early childhood bilingual intervention program) to provide replication services to various local education agencies requesting such services. Training was taken to the replication centers by a specially designed and equipped motor coach. During the year, the Fort…

A review of the difficulties Spanish-Americans and Mexican-Americans encounter in learning English, caused by a lack of knowledge of common idioms and figures of speech in current usage, leads to a discussion of two pilot studies in which the frequency of occurrence of idiomatic and figurative constructions in the reading materials presented to…

This annotated, cumulative bibliography, developed by the Proyecto Leer Program, of more than 600 selected works in Spanish focuses on works which meet the following criteria: (1) reading difficulty does not exceed 10th grade level, and (2) selections are suitable for a Spanish-American community. Books for children are listed separately from…

Cuba has experienced drastic social, economic, and political change since 1959. This book examines and analyses three important programs of Castro's regime which incorporate some of the distinctive features of the entire Cuban experience political socialization and cultural change; the literacy campaign of 1961, which was perhaps the most…

The collection of racial/ethnic data on the school population of New York State was initiated in 1961 with a census of public elementary schools. Since 1966 such information has been collected annually from all public elementary and secondary schools and is now a part of the Department's Basic Educational Data System. The information is used…

The primary purpose of this book is to present a synthetic account of the sociocultural system of the Spanish Americans in New Mexico. Historical as well as contemporary materials have been used to describe previously existing structures and to illustrate the processes of change. The background study consisted primarily of a systematic review of…