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Apodaca, Mary E.; And Others – 1988
In 1983, Colorado began a project to augment its pool of qualified French and Spanish teachers, enhance the foreign language programs of participating schools, improve the skills of French and Spanish teachers already teaching, meet the need of isolated rural districts, and develop alternative and accelerated teacher certification. A task force…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, French, Institutional Cooperation, Language Skills
Crow, Eleanor G. – 1969
The minority groups of Colorado--past, present, and future--are investigated in detail in this report by the Civil Rights Commission of Colorado. The commission uses the 1967 U. S. Civil Rights Commission report and the Kerner Report to clarify the problems of minority groups and to establish a foundation for programs combating these problems.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation
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Centennial School District R-1, San Luis, CO. – 1976
Do you feel that schools are only for teachers, principals, and people who have special training in education? Well, Centennial schools need help from parents. You don't need any special skills or training. All you have to do is care about making schools better places for children to learn. How can you help your children's schools do a better job?…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Bilingual Education, Boards of Education
Bathurst, Effie G. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
To promote inter-American understanding, a number of public-school systems, teacher-preparing institutions, State and county education departments, and the U. S. Office of Education recently cooperated in a series of experimental or demonstration centers. This bulletin describes the work carried on by 22 of these centers aided by a grant from the…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Public Schools, Schools of Education, Demonstration Centers
Horwedel, Dina – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2005
The town of Greeley, perched on northern Colorado's prairie, is like many other communities across the United States that are experiencing an influx of immigrants. The picturesque town of 85,000 people had a 30 percent minority population as of the 2000 U.S. Census. Estimates place that figure closer to 40 percent today, most of whom are Hispanic.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Cultural Awareness, Teacher Competencies, Bilingual Education
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San Luis Valley Board of Cooperative Services, Alamosa, CO. – 1974
For the children in the San Luis Valley (Colorado), bilingual education has provided a successful atmosphere for both the monolingual English speakers and the non-English speakers. They teach each other, learn about each other's culture, and appreciate and understand others better. This curriculum guide, funded by Title VII of the Elementary and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Concept Formation, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Guides
Torres-Gil, Fernando – 1977
The study examined the utilization of health care facilities, the barriers to utilization, the need for health services, the coping mechanisms (family, religion, folk medicine, or other vehicles used by older persons to help cope with health problems), and the way in which the different phases (prevention, initial utilization, and maintenance) of…
Descriptors: Age, Church Role, Cultural Influences, Delivery Systems
LAMANNA, RICHARD A.; SAMORA, JULIAN – 1965
STATISTICAL DATA OF THE 1950 AND 1960 CENSUSES ENABLES TEXAS MEXICAN-AMERICANS TO BE COMPARED EDUCATIONALLY WITH OTHER GROUPS IN TEXAS, WITH MEXICAN AMERICANS IN OTHER STATES, AND WITH TEXAS MEXICAN AMERICANS OF AN EARLIER DATE. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY, ALL PERSONS OF SPANISH-SURNAME ARE CONSIDERED TO BE MEXICAN AMERICAN. THE PAPER IS…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attendance, Census Figures, Conferences
Aguirre, Adalberto, Jr.; Bixler-Marquez, Dennis – 1980
The sociolinguistic assessment model employed in this study demonstrated a useful approach for examining the interrelationships between community and school goals regarding bilingual education. As results indicated, not only do educators and parents differ in their sociolinguistic characteristics, but also in their selection of a bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingualism, Educational Assessment
Segalowitz, Norman; Freed, Barbara; Collentine, Joe; Lafford, Barbara; Lazar, Nicole; Diaz-Campos, Manuel – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2004
In this paper, the authors report the results of a study that compared differences in the linguistic gains made by native English-speaking students from the United States who were studying Spanish in one of two different contexts of learning. One was a regular university classroom situation in Colorado; the other was a study abroad program in…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Learning Readiness, Second Languages, Second Language Learning
FELDMAN, DAVID M. – 1963
A FINAL REPORT IS PRESENTED HERE ON A PILOT PROJECT THAT WAS CONDUCTED DURING THE 1962-63 ACADEMIC YEAR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO IN WHICH SECONDARY SCHOOL SPANISH TEACHERS WERE GIVEN AN IN-SERVICE COURSE IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS. A HISTORY OF THE EXPERIMENT IS OUTLINED AND FOLLOWED IN PART II BY AN EVALUATION OF THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Discussion Groups
Zajic, Vlad; Shore, Marietta Saravia – 1972
This content analysis schedule for the Colorado City Center to Aid Bilingual Education presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their interaction. Information is provided on staff selection and the linguistic…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
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Reyes, Maria de la Luz; Laliberty, Eloise Andrade – Education and Urban Society, 1992
Common instructional practices in the teaching of language minority students are described. The case study of a fourth grade classroom in Longmont (Colorado) illustrates how a teacher's enthusiasm for literacy instruction creates an environment where all students, including the Hispanic language minority, can be active participants. (SLD)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices
Moss, Stephen, Ed. – 1982
This collection of articles deals with various career educational activities that inform students about the concept of career education as well as activities related to the specific fields of career education study in higher education. The publication is a result of a study of the involvement of Colorado institutions of higher learning in career…
Descriptors: Animal Husbandry, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education
Weiss, Rita S. – 1980
Evaluation of the 1974-77 INREAL (INclass REActive Language) demonstration model project, initially serving 518 children (aged 3-5 years), focused on the Colorado program's objectives of increasing language handicapped and bilingual (Spanish) children's language development significantly and preventing later language-related learning problems in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment
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