The booklet provides suggestions for parents to encourage their children to read and develop good study habits. Suggestions for the child's early years include speaking to the child as you would an adult, naming things in the home or labeling each item, reading to the child everyday, playing simple games with the child to teach them numbers,…

Four interference factors to math learning are poor or no instruction, low motivation, inappropriate learning theory, and physiological learning dysfunction. The math clinic, a teaching-learning strategy, uses diagnostic teaching skills and various learning rates for math studies. Instruction is matched to the student from information provided by…

Initiated in October, 1980, by the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT), the study addressed two concerns: present levels of service and demands for both services and programs from the GNWT to the non-English-speaking Dene and recommendations to the Executive Committee on steps to be taken now within government to overcome problems…

This booklet provides gereral information on minority women (Blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and American Indians) in math and science careers and profiles of specific women in these fields. Part 1 gives brief profiles (approximately 150 words each) of 40 minority women in math and science careers. Each biography gives the individuals' current…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles are as follows: (1) Physical and Oral Behaviors of the Solo Interpretive Performer; (2) Music in English Children's Drama; (3) Playwriting in the Maritime Provinces: 1845-1903; (4) Dance in Denver's Pioneer Theatres:…

The report presents findings from a study of the extent to which psychoeducational testing reports were used in one Navajo district and on the obstacles affecting their use. Data included an analysis of findings and recommendations in 321 individual psychoeducational reports, a structured critique by school personnel of 79 testing reports to…

The volume presents agendas of two inservice training workshops for school personnel on student assessment and two seminars for psychologists, held in the summers of 1981 and 1982, on the topic of placement and Individualized Education Program (IEP) development for handicapped Native American children. This document was prepared to accompany a…

A study of language maintenance and language shift among Asian Indian speakers of Kannada in the New York metropolitan area within the first generation of settlement in the United States examines this issue from a sociolinguistic perspective. The variables examined include the following: (1) proficiency in and respect for the mainstream language…

The 14 symposium papers presented in this document provide a diverse historical and personal interpretation of Alaska's educational development. Titles and authors are: "Conflicting Priorities, Conflicting Opinions: Alaskan Development and Sheldon Jackson, Educator" (Ted Hinckley); "Sheldon Jackson and the Constitutionality of the…

This study examines a specific Indian/Metis teacher education program which uses the group as a support system--the Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP) at Regina. SUNTEP is a part of the Elementary Teacher Education Program of the Univesity of Regina. This paper: (1) discusses the support services and systems provided as a…

The Coalition of Indian Controlled School Boards was organized in 1971, forming an alliance of Indian schools who shared common educational concerns. The Coalition stand has proved that the most effective way to successfully improve education for American Indians is to place the control and decision making power in the hands of Indian people. (KM)

Born an Episcopalian in New York, Elizabeth Ann Bayley (1774-1821), married (1794) William Magee Seton (1768-1803). Blessed with three daughters (Anna Maria, Rebecca, and Catherine Charlton, called "Kit") and two sons (William and Richard), the couple briefly enjoyed the comforts of social status and prosperity. They opened their arms to…

American Indians are now at the stage where, if they wish to maintain and further advances they have made, they must force the government to clarify its policies, to streamline its programs, and to deal honestly with all Indian communities. (KM)

The article discusses whether the cognitive potential of members of one cultural milieu can be assessed accurately by the tests of another culture. (KM)