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Thomas, Nancy G., Ed. – Social Policy Report, 1996
These four serials address issues of concern for child development researchers and specialists and also address the implications for policies affecting children. The first issue reports on "Latin American Immigration and U.S. Schools." The report provides an overview of Latin American immigration, its impact on schools, and efforts to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Advocacy, Child Development, Child Welfare
Clark, Andrew – 1993
Project Aprendizaje was designed to ease the transition of Latino immigrant students to life and education in the United States. In 1991-92, the project admitted 153 male and 145 female students of limited English proficiency plus 1 student of unspecified gender in grades 9 through 12 at Seward Park High School in Manhattan (New York City). The…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Counseling, Citizenship Education
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Matthews, Lear; Mahoney, Annette – Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2005
Immigrant students from the English-speaking Caribbean face various forms of psycho-educational and socio-cultural dislocation in their attempt to fit within the structures of their new schools and communities in the United States. These students risk academic failure and delinquency and the possibility of remaining on the periphery of American…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Immigrants, Teaching Methods, Latin Americans
Guadalupe, Deana R. – 1993
Dropout Reduction through Education, Achievement, and Motivation (Project DREAM) was designed to serve the needs of Latino immigrants who had scored at or below the 40th percentile on the Language Assessment Battery. The design-incorporating plans for group and individual guidance sessions to help students improve their interpersonal skills. It…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Awareness, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Boswell, Thomas D.; Curtis, James R. – 1984
This book is a discussion of the major social, economic, political, and geographical topics relating to Cuban settlement and culture in the United States. First, the book examines Cubans as an ethnic minority, as well as some of the events and people that have helped shape the popular images that Americans may have of this group. The focus then…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Art Expression, Cubans, Demography
Hadden, Gerry, Comp. – 1997
In December 1996, a peace accord ended 30 years of civil war in Guatemala, during which an estimated 200,000 people were killed and over 1 million were displaced. Most of the war's victims have been indigenous (Maya) Guatemalans--who make up about 65 percent of the population--and other supporters of economic and political reforms. In this book,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Aspiration, Family Life
Ready, Timothy – 1991
The passage from adolescence to adulthood of a group of young Latino immigrants, all of whom attended a Washington (District of Columbia) high school called the Multicultural Career Intern Program (MCIP) in the 1980s, is traced. Background and circumstances suggested that these youths were at-risk, but most made good use of their MCIP-related…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Career Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Roark-Calnek, Sue, Comp. – 1984
This 587-item annotated bibliography, designed as a supplement to the Haitian Component of the Migrant Heritage Studies Kit, provides access to additional information, including audiovisual materials, on resources on Haiti and Haitian immigrants, published between 1877 and 1984. Part I is a "General Bibliography" which includes 313…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Creoles, Cultural Background
Choonoo, John – 1992
An evaluation was conducted of the first year of a 3-year program at two elementary schools in New York City, Transitional Intervention Project (Project TIP), designed to provide support services to predominantly Latino students of limited English proficiency (LEP). The project proposed to offer an instructional component with instruction in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Evaluation
Garcia, Reyna G.; Duran, Richard P. – 1991
A study was undertaken to develop a profile of Latino immigrant adults in a California community. Questions guiding the research included: how recently arrived Mexicans and their families integrate themselves into a new community and society; whether or not they do integrate themselves; and how they cope with literacy demands of everyday life. The…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Basic Education, Coping, Cultural Context
Stanwyck, Douglas J.; Abdelal, Phyllis – 1984
A study of students' and teachers' attitudes toward cheating in the classroom of English as a second language (ESL) compared responses of five groups to a questionnaire concerning the use of crib notes, copying from another student's test, and allowing or refusing to allow another student to copy in hypothetical test situations. The comparison…
Descriptors: Arabs, Cheating, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Miami-Dade Community Coll., FL. – 1983
Project H.E.L.P. (Haitian/Hispanic Employability through Language Program) was developed in response to the language and employment needs of adult Spanish-speaking and Haitian immigrants in Florida. It is an interinstitutional cooperative educational program focusing on four basic aspects of communication: understanding, speaking, reading, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiovisual Aids, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Communication Skills
Alchin, Don D. – 1971
In this elective quinmester course clustering around behavioral studies, Junior high students study Cuban heritage; Cuban events leading up to the migration to the U.S.; and Cuban-American population as it now exists in the U.S., including refugee problems, contributions, and the future. The focus is upon helping teachers and students understand…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Activity Units, Adjustment (to Environment), American History
Perez-Erdelyi, Mireya – 1986
In an effort to sensitize college students of Spanish for the professions to the values and social reality of the Hispanic world, one teacher used a combination of demographic information and Hispanic American literature. Information on the geographic distribution and characteristics of Hispanic groups in the United States was provided as a…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Hispanic American Culture, Hispanic American Literature
Waldschmidt, Eileen Dugan; Kim, Younghee M.; Kim, Jiyoung; Martinez, Claudia; Hale, Aaron – 1999
The paper chronicles the struggles and challenges of teaching in a 6-week summer bilingual education program in a small town in Oregon. The program was a cooperative effort between a small town school district and Oregon State University at Corvallis. Teachers and researchers who entered into this project looked into the use of bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Classroom Techniques, College School Cooperation, Educational Strategies
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