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Valverde, Leonard A. – 1976
Since the birth of school integration efforts in America, the mixing of children of different races and ethnicities has gone through segregation, desegregation, and resegregation. Just as the popular misbelief was that Black Americans were segregated in the South where they numerically concentrated and rarely in the North, so too the stereotypic…
Descriptors: Bias, Change Strategies, Cubans, De Facto Segregation
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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Braddock, Jomills Henry, II; Dawkins, Marvin P. – Journal of Negro Education, 1993
Analyzes base-year and first follow-up data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to determine the extent to which African-American, Latino, American Indian, and Asian-American students are maldistributed across curriculum tracks and ability grouped classes relative to their Anglo counterparts. Policy implications of the results…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, American Indian Students
Switzer, Kenneth A.; Redden, Charlotte, A. – 1978
The guide was designed to assist secondary school classroom teachers in developing and implementing units on cultural diversity. The activities stress the impact of diversity globally as well as in Latin America and can be used as models for examining diversity in other geographic areas. Diversity refers to the heterogeneity of cultures and social…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Communications, Concept Formation, Conflict
Urch, George E., Ed.; And Others – 1972
The handbook presents methods and techniques for involving students in a variety of learning activities which will broaden their perceptions of the non-Western world, specifically Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The activities stress group discussion and personal interaction. Section one gives a brief overview of various…
Descriptors: African Culture, Arabs, Area Studies, Asian Studies
Zanoni, Candido P. – 1980
Efforts of the General College of the University of Minnesota to increase student retention during the 1979-80 academic year are described. The target groups were high-risk students, especially representatives of minority groups from traditionally nonacademic populations. The college mounted a pilot education program (PEP) comprising three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, American Indians, Basic Skills
Lafayette, Robert C., Ed. – 1975
This book consists of eleven papers presented at the 1975 Central States Conference. The principal objective of the conference was to examine the trend for human relations, ethnic studies, and bilingual-bicultural education in American education and the new interest in languages not usually taught in the past. The papers include: (1) "We're All…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
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Palmer, Colin A. – Journal of World History, 1995
Asserts that scholarship on the formative period of the African presence in the Americas is still in its infancy. Explores the role of ethnicity in the construction of the lives of African-born slaves in Mexico City during the early 1600s. Discusses implications of the findings, including the impact of ethnicity on marriage choices. (CFR)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Black Achievement, Black Culture
Lee, Vera – 1983
The development and coordination of interdisciplinary immersion programs in French and Spanish at Boston College are chronicled, and some issues of federal grant support are discussed. The programs, currently involving the history, theology, philosophy, fine arts, management, and sociology departments and soon including political science, consist…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Business Administration Education, Church Related Colleges, College Second Language Programs
Cabrera, Eulalia; And Others – 1988
In its first year, the 1987 Bilingual Program for Eleventh and Twelfth Graders provided mostly over-age, limited-English-speaking students with an opportunity for more timely graduation through instruction in English as a second language (ESL) and content-area instruction in the summer. Eligibility requirements included limited English proficiency…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Bilingual Education Programs, Biology, Business Education
Romano, Joan L.; Garfield, Joan B. – 1980
An end-of-year evaluation of the 1979-80 University of Minnesota's General College (GC) Pilot Education Program (PEP) for academically underprepared minority group students is presented. The results show that compared to other GC students, the PEP students came to the college with weaker academic skills, and had different personal characteristics.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, American Indians, Basic Skills
Ovando, Carlos Julio – 1977
The study's hypotheses were that: (1) the structural factors of ethnic density, socioeconomic status and type of school were more important determinants of college aspirations than such psychological variables as locus of control, optimism level and level of satisfaction with self and with the school program; and (2) students who were aware of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, College Bound Students
American Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC. – 1989
Part I of this publication contains a background paper, "The Health and Socioeconomic Situation of Midlife and Older Women in Latin America and the Caribbean" (Sennott-Miller). Part II includes and introduction and the following presentations: "Opening Statement" (Crooks); "Empowering Older Women: An Agenda for the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Aging (Individuals), Chronic Illness
Hansen, Evelyn Unes – 1980
As part of the General College of the University of Minnesota's Pilot Education Program (PEP) (1979-80) for academically underprepared minority group students, background information is presented about the development of the Chicano/Latino PEP package, the way that the Chicano/Latino team functioned; the nature, content, and teaching methods; and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, College Attendance
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Caliver, Ambrose – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1944
The improvement of human relations is generally recognized today as an essential prerequisite to national unity and world peace. Bringing about better human relations, however, presents many important problems, among those of: (1) Providing accurate knowledge about different races and groups; (2) Developing understanding and appreciation of these…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Minority Groups, Multicultural Education
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