Offers suggestions to teachers confronted with preschoolers who have had minimal exposure to other cultures outside their home and know little or no English, based on findings from the 1982 Sexsmith ESL Demonstration Preschool Project in Vancouver, British Columbia. (HOD)

Standardized tests have been used to deny Blacks and other non-Whites access to higher education and employment. The tests do not measure intelligence or innate ability but rather vocabulary, philosophical concepts, and literary devices. Black scholars must lead in developing a system to help Black students overcome these cultural biases. (KH)

Elucidates the reading problems of nonnative English speakers, noting reasons for the problems, giving signs of the problems, and demonstrating results of the problems. (HOD)

Evaluated the validity of Kohlberg's model and measure in a cross-cultural context and assessed the cultural uniqueness of social-moral reasoning among 92 Israeli kibbutz adolescents. Developmental findings strongly supported validity of Kohlberg's structural-developmental understanding of moral judgment. Stage change was found to be upward,…

Rather than just becoming a source of intense frustration and a symbol of America's supposed weakness of will, the Iranian hostage crisis could have led to greater interest in a culture different than students' own, American foreign policy and how it is achieved, world religions, and media coverage of crises. (Author/RM)

Results of Personal Attributes Questionnaire administered to Fijian secondary and university students showed: (1) no sex differences in sex-typing patterns; (2) same-sex-typing as much less marked than in the United States; (3) minor variations among Fijian ethnic groups; and (4) university students as more similar than secondary students to U.S.…

Describes the daily program of a highly successful Japanese preschool based on the Suzuki educational philosophy which emphasizes repetition and structure in teaching. Explores possibility of using program in other educational settings, particularly in the West, because of high cognitive gains by children. (DST)

The number of international students on college campuses is increasing dramatically. Some of these students live in residence halls. This article outlines a hall staff training program designed to include a multicultural focus. The program includes self-exploration for staff, multicultural awareness, and counseling skills exercises. (ABL)

Discusses four British educational practices dealing with reading instruction, written language, copybooks, and oral language and how they differ from American practices. (HTH)

Discusses criticism leveled at intelligence tests, including cultural and ethnic bias, charges related to content validity, and the ongoing debate of the relative influence of heredity and environment. Many popular attacks are misguided. (RM)

Explored differences in the attitudes which indigenous White British pupils and West Indian immigrants have toward school by surveying pupils in England and Jamaica. Found that neither ethnicity nor the impact of migration is alone sufficient to explain the differences, but that home socialization and cultural discontinuity play major roles. (GC)

Discusses differences in the way immigrant students (Grade 8) from the Soviet Union and North America adjust to the Israeli educational system. Reports that North American students are peer group-oriented (like Israeli students), whereas Soviet students are adult-oriented, and thus more likely to experience congnitive dissonance. (KH)

The Reagan administration's art policy is elitist, because it calls for federal and private sector support for fine art experiences of, by, and for the select few. What is needed is a culturally democratic policy that would support the art preferences and art education of all the people. (RM)

Argues that with the recent influx of so many mainstreamed new Canadian students with insufficient fluency in English there is a need to rethink policies on access to specialized English instruction and about their relationship to high school English teaching. (HOD)

The relationship between teachers and American Indian students influences how well the students learn. Teacher attitudes, values, and competencies are shaped from training experience. To develop positive attitudes, teachers need specialized training, strong incentives, improved administrative support, and understanding of relationships between…