This curriculum guide, designed by secondary school teachers from the Minnesota school districts of Roseville and St. Paul, helps students to understand the status, needs, and contributions of minority group women: American Indians; Asian Americans; blacks; and Hispanics. The guide is intended for use by secondary grade teachers to integrate…

"Integrating Cultural Diversity into Non-Sex-Biased Curricula" is a training and development program designed to help students understand the status, needs, and contributions of minority group women. It deals with American Indian, Asian American, black, and Hispanic women and points out relevant aspects of the history, culture, and contributions…

This document is one of five filmstrip user's guides that can be used to increase understanding of minority group women in the United States by supplying basic information on their histories, current concerns, myths, and misleading stereotypes. The guide was designed to be used with a filmstrip entitled "America's Women of Color: Past, Present,…

Although the Utah State Board of Education estimates that approximately 10% of the minority high school graduates enter post-secondary educational institutions, the University of Utah registration statistics indicate that only 1% complete requirements for a baccalaureate degree. Of the estimated 2,000 minorities enrolled in Utah's colleges and…

This is an annotated listing of 25 items that can be used in connection with instruction in Ukrainian language, culture, history, and literature. Items include surveys, journals, literary works, and other scholarly and instructional materials on the history and current status of the Ukraine and Ukrainian immigrants to Canada. (AM)

This guide represents an effort at identifying resources in the Chicago area that are related to multicultural and multiethnic education. The guide was compiled by students at the University of Illinois. The educational value of the process of compilation of the guide is discussed. The training of compilers and the research methodology used are…

The curriculum guide focuses on presenting ethnic heritage information to special education minority group students. Activities are listed in terms of background, objectives, materials, teaching time, and task guidelines for five units: identity, communication, life styles, immigration and migration, and prejudice and discrimination. Each unit…

The activities depicted and the information provided in this book reflect the program for cultural awareness at The Learning Tree, a preschool located in Dallas, Texas. The material is presented in the hope that it will serve to increase children's acceptance of diversity and pluralism in American society. Six cultures are represented: Asian,…

In order to discern the role of higher education in the training of personnel for bilingual/bicultural education, 3,038 postsecondary institutions in the United States, Guam, and the Virgin Islands were surveyed during the 1977-78 academic year. Data are presented on the groups studied and the courses offered. Tables also provide information on…

A study of the demographic make-up of the students enrolled during Spring and Fall 1979 was conducted by East Los Angeles College (ELAC) to determine how student demographics vary from semester to semester. The data, collected for students who had at least one active unit in either full- or short-term classes, profiled students by: sex; zipcode…

In this review of studies and programs relating to immigrant children enrolled in public schools in Hawaii, it is suggested that ways in which immigrant children are described has political significance and evaluative implications. Four problems facing immigrant youth were identified by the Hawaii Department of Education. The major problem was…

ASIAN STUDIES IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS HAVE PASSED THEIR PIONEER STAGE AND REQUIRE EXPANSION AND MORE DEPTH. THERE IS NEED FOR PREPARING TEACHERS BY SUMMER INSTITUTES, BY SERVICES WHICH SHOULD BE SUPPLIED BY A SERVICE CENTER, AND BY LEAVES OF ABSENCE FOR STUDIES AT GRADUATE CENTERS AND IN ASIA. THE TEACHING OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE LANGUAGES SHOULD BE…

This partially annotated bibliography on the education of Asian Americans is said to serve the purpose of contributing to the understanding of a mostly heterogeneous population that includes subgroups such as Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, East Indians, Vietnamese, Indonesians, and others. Documents on these Asian American ethnic groups…

Data which taps aspects of traits said by Oscar Lewis to comprise a "culture of poverty" were examined for poor and non-poor families varying in ethnic background and residence. Before comparing the incidence of poverty culture across ethnic and residence lines, the question "Do alleged poverty culture traits become more pronounced as level of…

The report centers around the general question of how nonwhite minority groups were treated by those responsible for public education in California between 1849 and 1970. The minorities treated are Indian, Mexican, Negro, and Asian Americans, all of whom were once considered a formidable problem by Californians of the dominant culture. More…