Students majoring in home economics education were studied to see if any change in attitude occurred following a course on teaching learners with special needs. The categories of special needs learners were: physically handicapped, emotionally disturbed, hearing and visually impaired, urban, rural, and Indian disadvantaged, and the educable…

This study examined the delivery of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I services to private schools through an analysis of a national survey of Title I programs, an examination of the implementation of the program in 50 school districts and by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and a review of the monitoring efforts of 41 state education…

A needs assessment survey to determine the kinds of activities that would best serve the motivational and academic needs of Apache students was submitted to 900 parents of children attending the Rice Elementary School District on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona. The six top priority items suggested by the parents included home…

Rural youth are a diverse group not only geographically, but socioeconomically, ethnically, and culturally as well. Historically, the rural student has not achieved as well as his urban counterpart in high school or in post secondary education. There is evidence that this is beginning to change and that rural students are doing as well or better…

The myth that only the high school student who is at or near the top of his class can succeed at a four-year college is not upheld for graduates of Laguna-Acoma High School (LAHS) in New Mexico. Many sources provide accurate gradepoint averages (GPA), American College Test (ACT) scores and Rank in Class (RIC) for the LAHS students who took the ACT…

The American Indian Curricula Development Program (AICDP) produced a two-package program for grades 9-12. The "Social Conflict" package, with Prejudice, Indian Education, Americanizing the Indian, and B.I.A. units, and the "Fine Arts" package, with Art, Music, Literature, and Dance and Drama units, were Pan-Indian in orientation with a strong…

This book of poetic riddles written in Alaskan Athabaskan is intended as supplementary reading for use in a bilingual education setting. The riddles, told as a pastime and as an art about the native culture, were recorded by a 90-year-old Koyukon leader. An English translation is included. (NCR)

A study was conducted to enhance the equal access and opportunity of Cherokee Indian youth to vocational education through the development and implementation of strategies designed to stimulate junior high school teachers to assume the responsibility of vocational counseling and guidance in the regular classroom curriculum. A second objective was…

Part of a series of home literacy readers, written in a conversational style, and widely illustrated, this booklet is directed at the Alaskan environment where the severely cold climate makes frostbite an immediate danger. Frostbite is freezing of the living body. The first symptom is frostnip. Skin becomes red, then white or gray, and it retains…

Part of a series of home literacy readers with conversational text and sketches, this booklet depicts the subarctic Alaskan environment where cold makes extreme demands on body metabolism. Body temperature must be maintained above 80F (26.7C). A condition of too little body-heat is termed hypo- ('deficit') thermia ('heat'). Hypothermia is the…

Important steps in building a multicultural curriculum are the development of specific criteria for cultural inclusion, use of different methods of instruction in the classroom, and implementation of in-service programs for the continual retraining of teachers. Various state departments have developed criteria for inclusion, and these can be used…

This workbook in the Gwich'in Athapascan language contains six reading selections with questions for elementary school students who have a good grasp of the language. (NCR)

Behavioral objectives and supplemental student activities are featured in this teacher's guide for using the Native American Adult Readers in basic education/GED programs. The guide provides the rationale for developing the readers, which contain a variety of brief articles and essays and are designed to provide meaningful material based on Native…

This collection of articles reflects humanists' interest in searching out and studying good literature for children. Five of the seventeen articles were originally presented at a symposium on children and literature in the Middle Ages. Other articles discuss the concept of "writing for children," provide reproductions of Chinese…

This paper about the history and distribution of indigenous languages of Bolivia is divided into two parts. The first part deals with: (1) the developments of comparative work in South American Indian languages, (2) the phonological problems of comparative work in recently written languages, and (3) the apparent conflicts when dealing with early…