Describes the organization and operation of an immigration social service agency in Garden City, Kansas, with attention to relations among the staff and between the staff and the Asian-American and Hispanic-American clientele. (DM)

Discusses a pilot study conducted to determine whether cooperative learning had a beneficial effect on the academic performance of minority students and subsequent enrollments in the elective courses in biochemistry and molecular biology. Minority students average GPA increased from 2.13 (n=39) to 2.96 (n=17). Enrollment in aforementioned courses…

Presents a lesson on the Gulf of Tonkin incident during the Vietnam War and the resulting Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Recommends using the resolution as a way of studying the war making powers of the U.S. presidency. Includes excerpts from the Tonkin Gulf Resolution as student readings. (CFR)

Researchers studied the predictive utility of the health belief model in relation to prevention of HIV infection among Asian-American college students. Surveys of 141 students indicated that perceived severity and barriers to preventive action were significant predictors of the adoption of HIV-preventive behaviors in that population. (SM)

Examines the relationship between gender, ethnicity, and self-esteem, based on responses to two questionnaires completed by nearly all seventh to twelfth graders in Colorado Springs. Findings are contradictory across groups but indicate overall that institutional racism and sexism result in lower self-esteem among minorities and females. (DM)

Asks how the Chinese Communist party's education policy can achieve the goal of socialist higher education. Examines a series of surveys of college graduates, dropouts, and current undergraduates taken April to October of 1986, and reports on survey results at various institutions on student attitudes, values, and commitment to party ideologies.…

Explores some of the dominant discursive models of Southeast Asians operative within academic and popular culture, and demonstrates how these models are taken up and responded to in school projects of adolescent Southeast Asian students in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) schools. How these students negotiate a public model for themselves is examined.…

Examines link between acculturation and adjustment in 182 Vietnamese youths living in an Anglo-American community. Results indicate involvement in U.S. culture predicts positive functioning on personal, interpersonal, and academic levels. Involvement in the Vietnamese culture predicts positive family relationships. (MMU)

Explores three factors that may explain why certain Asian-American groups have higher educational expectations than White groups: (1) favorable socioeconomic characteristics, (2) demonstrated academic ability, and (3) high parental expectations. Indicates that parental expectations explain a large portion of children's high expectations for all…

Uses social-identity theory to test the relationship between discrimination and components of ethnic identity, and attitudes toward out-groups. Results indicate that, contrary to social identity theory, a stronger sense of belonging to one's group is associated with more positive attitudes toward out-groups. (Author/JDM)

Presents a multicultural framework for thinking about, assessing, and working with people with deafness from Asian and Asian Deaf backgrounds. Emphasis is placed on cultural awareness and cultural competence for professionals and on building bridges across cultural networks. (Author/CR)

Survey of 10th-grade students found that sex and race significantly predicted their educational and vocational aspirations. The educational aspiration model was shown to be more robust than occupational aspiration model. Asian Americans had the greatest increase in educational aspirations; female students had higher educational and vocational…

Lists institutions of higher education that confer the most postsecondary degrees to students of color. Tables are provided for associate degrees (all minorities); baccalaureate degrees (all minorities); baccalaureate degrees for African Americans, American Indian, Asian American, and Hispanic; and baccalaureate degrees by subject area and…

Looks at differences among six Asian-American ethnic groups in terms of student-level and school-level characteristics and examines factors related to their educational aspirations. Discusses implications for counselors to help Asian-American students achieve academic success in secondary and higher education. (Author/MKA)

Used FITNESSGRAM fitness standards to compare passing rates of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) students with passing rates of National Children and Youth Fitness Study participants, examining body mass index (BMI) and 1-mile run (OMR) rates. The groups had similar BMI but differing OMR passing rates. There were gender- and age-related BMI and OMR…