Reading programs in the Fresno City Unified School District are evaluated as part of PROJECT DESIGN, funded under ESEA Title III. This report includes the following phases: (1) the development of a comprehensive scope and sequence outline of skills, attitudes, and knowledge in the area of reading; (2) an analysis of the schools, the students, and…

According to this summary report, the State of Wisconsin has been guided by 3 goals in planning education programs for migrant children: (1) to increase familiarity of the school staff with the problems and needs of migrant children, (2) to develop a curriculum emphasizing communication skills, and (3) to build a school environment which…

An analysis of a Mexican essay by Samuel Ramos attempts to resolve the issue of whether or not there is a common philosophy in Latin America today. Manuel Mendoza concludes that no such philosophy exists, because the area has not had time to develop an internal character, and as a result, the intellectual and and philosophical concepts are based…

This paper serves as an introduction to a group of papers produced by the Classroom Interaction Project of the Center for Research in Social Behavior at the University of Missouri in Columbia. This project has been chiefly concerned with ascertaining if black-ghetto and white-suburban classrooms use language differently and, if so, in what ways.…

Two speeches from the 1970 Wisconsin Elementary Language Arts Conference are included in this document. In "The Changing World of Language Arts," William Jenkins characterizes language as man's most important possession, and the study of it as possibly the student's most crucial undertaking. He also suggests that the modern language arts program…

Described in this report is a survey conducted to acquire detailed information about the number, kinds, and uses of language laboratories in Virginia's public secondary schools. An introductory section discusses the development of a questionnaire, its distribution to school superintendents, and the analysis of the results. The major part of the…

The purposes of the study conducted in Saginaw County, Michigan, were to determine (1) changes experienced by Spanish-speaking migrants, especially moves into and out of the labor force; (2) future changes in the availability of Spanish-speaking migrants for agricultural labor; (3) the significance of migrants' settling permanently in Michigan;…

This study was undertaken at Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois) to explore the effectiveness of one way of preparing in-service teachers in transformational grammar. The method involved two phases: (1) the training of four high school English teachers, in one school district, in transformational grammar, and (2) the production of a series of…

In this description of two antithetical opinions concerning freshman English program objectives, cases are presented for the language skills improvement and literature appreciation points of view. Such factors as (1) class size, (2) instructor work load and research potential, and (3) student and teacher interests are considered. A discussion of…

This book offers an "organic" approach to teaching based on the recognition of the opposing human forces of destructiveness and creativity. The experience of teaching in a Maori school in New Zealand for 24 years provides the background of this personal story. With much of the content presented in anecdotal fashion, the quality and…

Twenty-two papers by different authors consider poetry therapy as treatment for persons with emotional disorders. Its use with the following is described: a psychotic patient, hospitalized schizophrenics, psychoneurotics in a mental health center, and disturbed adolescents. Also discussed are poetry as therapy and as a therapeutic art, principles…

Printed materials, classroom equipment and audio-visual resources are listed for language arts, arithmetic, social studies, and science for the primary, intermediate, junior high, and senior high levels. Publishers' addresses and descriptions of the materials are given; also included are lists of professional books, bulletins, and curriculum…

In this paper the effects of environmental influences upon the development of reading readiness in young children were discussed. It was assumed that the effects of social, cultural, and economic factors on a preschool child are mediated in a large part through adults closely involved with the child's life. One hundred sixty Negro mothers and…

The problem of retaining Mexican American students in institutions of higher education is reviewed in these 5 papers: "The Retention of Mexican American Students in Higher Education with Special Reference to Bicultural and Bilingual Problems" by Manuel H. Guerra; "Mexicanismo vs. Retention: Implications of Retaining Mexican American…

Teaching with films has largely been limited to the attainment of the simpler educational objectives such as factual and perceptual motor skills learning. Here is an attempt to define the characteristics of filmic communication in order that it may be applied to more complex educational aims. Language and filmic symbolism are compared to…