The volume is one of four containing lesson plans covering a wide range of business subjects incorporated in a course for American Indians to prepare them for jobs as owners/managers of their own businesses and for management positions with businesses owned by bonds, cooperatives, and others. Lessons are drawn from different subject areas and…

The volume is one of four containing lesson plans covering a wide range of business subjects incorporated in a course for American Indians to prepare them for jobs as owners/managers of their own businesses and for management positions with businesses owned by bonds, cooperatives, and others. Lesson are drawn from different subject areas and…

The bibliography provides access to some of the latest findings and developments in migrant education. A supplement to 4 earlier bibliographies, it contains approximately 100 citations and abstracts published from 1965 to 1973 which have appeared in "Research in Education". The "Current Index to Journals in Education" section…

The evaluation report of Texas graduate schools of social work has 6 criteria: (1) an increase in the percentage of Blacks and Mexican Americans in schools; (2) a full utilization of the scholarships under these programs; (3) development of a statewide recruitment system; (4) relevant curriculum changes; (5) retention of graduates from the…

The annual report (1972-73) of the Nevada Department of Education on the American Indian education program is concerned with the allocation of the Johnson O'Malley (JOM) Act funds, which enables the Bureau of Indian Affairs to contract with states and local school districts for the education of Indian children. At present, the JOM funds in the…

The Northern Indian California Education Project is devoted to increasing the quantity and quality of accurate information available about local American Indian life through curriculum development, to helping school personnel to better understand and meet the needs of Indian students, and to increasing the participation and influence of Indian…

Purposes of these hearings--held Sept. 1-3, 1971, in Washington, D.C.--were (1) to document the disparities between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan schools, (2) to present a picture of what rural education is like at the grass-roots level, and (3) to review some of the programs which have been designed to improve nonurban education. Witnesses…

The premise advanced by Project P.I.S.C.E.S. (Phoenix Indian School Comprehensive Evaluation for Education of Students) was that physical, educational, and psychological evaluation of students would leave no doubt as to individuals' strengths and weaknesses as these areas relate to learning in a formal academic situation. To complement the…

Underlying the creation of this Project NECESSITIES unit entitled "Communication Skills: Fact and Opinion" (for secondary students) are the following assumptions: (1) that the way a person presents an argument is as instructive and sometimes as persuasive as the content of the argument, (2) that understanding the process of persuasion and the use…

A critical assessment of the Canadian Indian-Eskimo Association's current Community Development Program for Canadian Indian, Eskimo, and Metis communities, this document contains proposals for corrective measures. Sections of the document are (1) The Beginning of Community Development in Canada; (2) Structure in Canada for Community Development…

Information about American Indians for use in Minnesota third-grade classrooms is presented in this curriculum unit completed as a requirement for a University of Minnesota extension course on Indian education for public school teachers. Objectives and goals are listed for the unit on the Indian tribes of Minnesota; a comparison of Chippewa and…

To cope with the bilingual education problems in a community such as Rock Point on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, a program has been developed to teach English as a foreign language within a bilingual setting. The goal is coordinate bilingualism in which each language has a separate but equal status, and the program is a "transitional" one…

The elementary school in Pojoaque, New Mexico, has recently developed a remedial reading program for children in grades 2 to 4. Eighty-three children participated in 1969-70. As the population of the area is 76 percent Spanish-American, 12 percent Indian, 12 percent white, and less than 1 percent black, work in the program focuses on language and…

This document is the first issue of the University of Wisconsin System "Ethnic and Minority Studies Review," which represents an effort to bring to the attention of the people of Wisconsin and elsewhere an awareness of the work that is being done in the area of ethnic and minority and women's studies, especially within Wisconsin, along with…

The purpose of this model is the implementation of a multi-faceted Family Involvement-Communication System (FICS) which has as its major thrust the involvement of the family as active partners in school experiences. The model provides training and experiences. The model provides training and experiences for teachers, principals, parents, and…