This document is a transcript of the proceedings of a one-day meeting held in Austin, Texas on March 29, 1967. Participants included representatives of the national Head Start Planning Committee, the Head Start Research and Evaluation Division in Washington, D. C., and the staff and study directors of the regional Child Development Evaluation and…

A study was made to determine the effectiveness of the Connecticut "pairing" model in improving the school success of Spanish-dominant children classified as low achievers. The study was concerned with whether a carefully designed model of bilingual-bicultural education can improve reading, arithmetic and language arts skills and enhance…

The purpose of this position paper is to create awareness among decision makers and staff of Michigan foundations of the current status of Michigan residents who are Indian, Black, and Chicano minorities. An historic overview of the Indian, Black, and Spanish language populations in Michigan begins the paper. Indicators of current conditions of…

The institute provided an opportunity for 83 English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers to practice with an existing class of non-English speakers. Participants were divided into small groups, and each group was assigned a master teacher to supervise the entire three weeks of activities. Activities included: demonstration and discussion,…

This is an interim report on the first year of a five-year Spanish/English, bilingual/bicultural education program in Pueblo, Colorado, for grades K-4. The program is based on the premise that realistic language instruction begins with an assessment of each student's oral proficiency in both languages. The teacher should then develop this…

This project-developed and tested aural-oral guide is designed especially for use at the preschool and kindergarten levels. It is designed for the teacher of Spanish-speaking children as a series of lesson plans or scripts around such topics as school, the family and pets. Vocabulary enrichment, syntactical drill patterns, and pronunciation and…

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 report is comprised of a series of descriptions of compensatory education programs. Programs included provision of: health information, health examinations and follow-up treatment, individualized counseling, bilingual education, and remedial instruction. Special help programs for migrant, orphaned, emotionally disturbed, rural, and…

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 study was undertaken to systematically explore some of the social mechanisms within classrooms that mediate educational effects of schools for Mexican Americans in a metropolitan context. Seventy-two teachers from 9 schools in 3 distinct ecological areas in El Paso, Texas, were asked to complete a questionnaire and the Minnesota Teacher…

By legislative action in June 1958, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico initiated a program to teach English as a second language to Spanish-speaking migrant workers. The purpose of the program is to improve employer-employee relationships and to help the agricultural migrant adjust to the English-oriented community when he is seasonally employed in…

The handbook is directed to teachers of economically and culturally deprived, Spanish-speaking migrant pupils having a limited command or a complete lack of English. Several suggestions are given for providing a wide range of opportunities for meaningful oral communication as a means of overcoming this obstacle and promoting the use of standard…

Peace Corps language training in Spanish at the University of New Mexico is described. Such training features as class size, instructional levels, instructional method, drill, grammar presentation, classroom and laboratory work, review, testing, supplementary materials, use of native informants, teacher characteristics, and practice at mealtime…

This collection of articles, written by administrators and teachers in the small city and rural school districts of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Counties, New York, deals with the education of culturally disadvantaged white, Negro, Puerto Rican, Indian, and migrant youth. Programs developed by the schools with the aid of Federal funds providing…

This second manual of tape scripts, together with a set of foreign language audio tapes for level 2 Spanish, was prepared to support the curriculum bulletin, New York City Foreign Language Program for Secondary Schools: Spanish, Levels 1-5. Vocabulary, repetition, transformation, and recombination drills on specific grammatical features allow…