The manual describes implementation of Project STEP (Strategies for Targeting Early Potential), designed to identify potentially gifted minority children in kindergarten and grade 1. The objective is an enriched educational program with which to identify students whose language, cultural, or economic differences may limit the validity of…

Mexican American women have higher fertility rates and higher divorce rates than does the general population of the United States. In light of these data and the documented negative effects of marital distress and divorce on spouses, Mexican American women appear to be at risk for psychological stress. To provide some insight into the marital…

This study investigated whether Koreans and Americans differ in proficiency in informal mathematics, if Korean children start off with an advantage in this area, and if their informal mathematics is different from that of Americans. The study also examined: possible cultural differences in the understanding of and performance in formal mathematics…

The differences which appear when a heavily scientific culture comes in contact with a culture whose basic orientation toward nature and man is of a religious, magical character are briefly investigated. (NQ)

A discussion of race and class interpretations of integration in terms of either a plurolistic or assimilationist perspective. (EH)

This article is a series of excerpts from 11 papers which the editors requested from foreign colleagues who visited the U.S. Particularily emphasized are the points of difference and similarity between what they see in their own countries and what they see here. (HMV)

Authors argued that from an educational perspective sex-linked genetic differences are largely irrelevant, that sex-linked cultural differences are real, but unstable and situational, and finally that bicultural blendings are beneficial and increasingly prevalent. (Editor/RK)

The study of the popular arts should be an integral part of the English curriculum. (JH)

Author considered how much a public school system should do to preserve ethnic identities. (Editor/RK)

The author relates the experiences of a Spanish-speaking boy who is entering first grade. The difficulties that result and what teachers and counselors can do to help resolve them are discussed. (RWP)

Discusses nine articles dealing with area study and gives hints for treatment of various topics within the field of area studies. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Describes a study conducted with the "Environmental Phenomena Attitude Scale." The population included teachers college and high school students and Pidgin speaking, illiterate laborers. Results showed that there is a very strong relationship between memberships of the student or villager group and the score obtained on the scale. (MLH)

The author discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the adoption of black children by white parents. He concludes that until empirical studies are made, placements should not proceed as if it had already been ascertained that transracial adoption is beneficial. (Author/BW)

The author refutes the revisionist opinion that John Dewey did not favor the preservation of cultural differences and ethnic variables. (DE)