In March 1975, there were about 11.2 million persons of Spanish origin in the United States. This advance report presents data on a variety of social, economic, and democratic characteristics for these people. Subcategories of Spanish origin are: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central and South American, or other Spanish origin. Collected in the…

This newsletter is designed for use by teachers, counselors, and administrators involved in bilingual-bicultural education programs. The first three articles, by R. Garcia, R. Pena, and R. Wiezell, which are in Spanish, review language textbooks, materials for teaching elementary science, and several Spanish dictionaries. R. Garza discusses the…

The purpose of this evaluation study was to determine students' and classroom personnel's perceptions of and reactions to "Villa Alegre"--a television series produced by Bilingual Children's Television, Inc. and shown in various locations in the U.S. during the fall of 1974--when utilized in a classroom setting in order to ascertain…

The combined effect of the articles in this issue of "Inequality in Education" is to offer the reader a primer in bilingual/bicultural education. The articles which follow indicate that neither legislation nor court orders, correctly or incorrectly interpreted, can bring about effect change in this field on their own. What the bilingual…

The study identified the barriers which prevent application, matriculation, and/or completion of allied health postsecondary education programs by blacks, Spanish-surnamed Americans, and Native Americans and recommended means of reducing or eliminating the barriers. Only those barriers which could be resolved or reduced through programs of public…

Arranged alphabetically by State and by communities within each State, the 1974 report contains employment information on all braodcast units licensed by the Federal Communications Commission with more than 10 full-time employees. The report includes separate entries for the number of full-time and part-time employees, with full-timers being…

Affirmative action was intended as the vehicle to bring about equal opportunities for minorities, including the Hispanics who had been for the most part effectively shut out from full participation in higher education. After more than a decade of affirmative action, there has been little noticeable improvement for the Hispanic in higher education,…

Forty-six documents are listed in this annotated bibliography, which includes audio-visual, classroom, curriculum, library, and professional bilingual bicultural resources. A reference on an annotated bibliography of doctoral dissertations on social and psychological studies of minority children and youth is also included. Entries are listed…

This publication presents four suggested language arts curriculum units. They represent a cross-section of materials that have been developed to deal with the learning problems of students with special language difficulties. Originally developed for grades 7-12, these units may be adapted for use in adult education or at other grade levels. They…

This paper contains a critical evaluation of the research conducted by O.L. Davis and Carl Personke on the use of reading readiness tests in English and Spanish for Spanish speaking elementary school pupils. Davis and Personke indicated that, when Spanish speaking first graders were tested in both English and Spanish, most of the differences were…

The purpose of this study was to test the effects of bilingual and monolingual school on the production of Spanish syntactic structures. The main hypothesis to be tested was that there was no significant difference in the development of Spanish syntactic structures between those children schooled bilingually and those children schooled…

A bilingual language test was constructed and standardized on 384 children in three groups: Spanish-speaking Mexican-Americans, English-speaking Mexican-Americans, and Anglo-Americans. The three groups' scores were significantly different. Data on parents' income and education was obtained and compared to the children's test performance. No…

Part of the "Land of Enchantment" series of instructional materials, this very detailed teaching manual is designed to help teachers in bilingual programs prepare students to read Spanish. It contains suggestions for developing reading readiness skills and ways to teach a basic 30-word reading vocabulary. The reading program follows five steps:…

This guide presents a rationale for quality foreign language programs and examines what might constitute a quality foreign language program. The following questions are discussed: reasons for foreign language study, kind of student and type of instruction necessary, objectives and application of FL study. The articulation of the foreign language…

This course is designed to help students improve their oral and written expression as well as their ability to summarize. Stories by Spanish and Spanish American writers are used. Students also have the opportunity to reinforce skills in recognizing the importance of writing as an efficient means of communication, and experience is provided in…