Supporting data for the charts in "Age of Transition: Rural Youth in a Changing Society, Agriculture Handbook No. 347" are contained in this supplement. The tables are arranged in the same order as the charts and carry the same titles. The data reflect (1) the number of people in education and the labor force, (2) Indian and…

The relationship between self-esteem, academic expectations, and ethnic group membership was studied in a New York City elementary school which had an approximately equal enrollment of Negro, white, and Spanish-background pupils. Subjects were 162 sixth-grade students who were tested with two projective tests and one specifically designed…

Based on the annual reports filed by private employers indicating the sex and racial/ethnic make-up of their employees, employment statistics were gathered by sex for each of nine major occupational categories and for each of four minority groups: Blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and American Indians. In 1975, individual reports were filed for…

This article reports continuing increases in the youth labor force participation rate. The employment situation of workers aged sixteen to twenty-four is described as improved for the year ending October, 1977. The report states that the number with jobs rose by 1.1 million to 20.6 million. Also, the number of unemployed youth dropped by 280,000…

In order to provide the Florida Migratory Child Compensatory Education Program with information required for determining whether and to what extent the educational needs of migrant children were being met by the present educational programs, eight study tasks were implemented. These tasks involved looking at the changes and characteristics of the…

This bibliography covers the children's sections (preschool through elementary school) of a comprehensive demonstration collection of multicultural materials at California State University, Hayward, in the areas of Black, Spanish-speaking, Asian-American, American Indian and Pacific Island cultures. The bibliography lists approximately 4,000 items…

In this report, process objectives, project materials, time allotment, and suggested activities for the instruction of all-Spanish and English dominant, Spanish dominant, English dominant-Spanish speaking, English mono-lingual and English dominant children are described. The following curriculum areas are considered: dominant language arts,…

This bibliography was prepared for foreign language teacher trainers and curriculum specialists for use in preservice and inservice instruction. The audiovisual materials cited here have been compiled from an extensive search of AV center catalogues and periodicals in which such materials are advertised. The listings have been grouped into four…

This compendium of over 250 evaluation instruments in use by project sites throughout the U.S. is designed to assist bilingual/bicultural educators in locating, developing, or adapting evaluation instruments suitable to local assessment needs. The titles and descriptions of instruments listed are those provided by staff in bilingual/bicultural…

Government and private agency statistics on a variety of education related problems are presented in this first edition of the yearbook. Material gathered on educational and labor-related opportunities of seven groups: blacks, Spanish surnamed, American Indians, Women, and Japanese, Chinese, Filipino descended Americans is presented. This…

One of the issues in bilingual education is whether programs designed to provide immigrant children with special aid in learning English are adequate. To provide factual data this study reports on a survey conducted on all classroom and home teachers in the public schools of New York City. Each teacher is asked to list all pupils in the class who…

This booklet provides a brief descriptive listing of programs and services, and materials and resources for black and Puerto Rican studies available at present, to be available in 1970-71, and in the planning stage. The services described are those of research, advisory, consulting, funding, and supportive categories. Part of the research services…

This guide, designed to support language arts programs in teaching English to speakers of other languages and in teaching standard English as a second dialect, is for use by teachers of language-handicapped children at the kindergarten level. The 135 half hour lessons, covering one year's work, may be used with mixed groups since the basic…

Articles treating various aspects of the teaching of Hispanic culture at the secondary and junior high school levels are intended to improve methodology and facilitate the development of teacher-made instructional materials. An overview of the field relating problems and procedures in several areas is developed. Selections cover: (1) bilinguality,…

A College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB)-sponsored survey presents data derived from the questionnaire responses of a representative sample of 5,382 secondary school seniors who took the CEEB French, Spanish, or German achievement tests during the 1965-66 academic year. Written analyses of questionnaire data, along with many supporting graphs…