Bibliographic data, physical characteristics, contents, prices, and ordering instructions for Spanish instructional materials listed in this issue of the Materials Acquisition Project are provided for each entry. Subject categories include social science, language arts, pure science, technology, the arts, literature, and history. Materials are…

During the summer of 1976, North Dakota's 10 migrant centers enrolled more than 2,500 migrant children, ranging from a few days to 18 years of age. All students were entered in the Migrant Student Record Transfer System. A basic remedial program emphasizing instruction in reading, language arts, and math with some time devoted to science and…

A study based on two hypotheses: (1) The cognitive and academic effects of bilingualism are mediated by the levels of competence attained in the first and second languages, and (2) the development of skills in a second language is a function of skills already developed in the first language. (AMH)

In two case studies instructional conditions constrained what working class Hispanic students and their teachers accomplished. Certain instructional arrangements ensnare linguistic minority students by not capitalizing fully on their social, linguistic, and intellectual resources. Community based research sites can help to develop the appropriate…

Discusses the problems that children who do not speak the language of their school experience, as well as the personal, social, and cultural characteristics of learners that affect their progress in a second language. (DF)

Teachers of nonstandard dialect-speaking students need to become ethnographers of local communication. For minority education and bidialectal programs to work, there must be an informed awareness of community language functions and of the structural equality of all world dialects. (41 references) (CJH)

Added to the right of free public schooling for all is the option, in many countries, of taking that schooling in the language of the home. Mother-tongue education, however, brings with it many problems; e.g., if citizens don't know languages of wide communication, the country may suffer economically. (RM)

Provides an annotated bibliography of print and audio-visual materials, including ERIC documents, designed to support instruction about immigration in elementary and secondary social studies classes. (JDH)

Discusses ways in which the regular classroom teacher can design language development programs for limited-English-speaking children. (HTH)

Provides an annotated bibliography of 64 current articles covering aspects of education law. Selections are listed under 20 subject groupings. (MD)

This paper argues against Australia's "One Literacy" (English only) movement, explaining that in recent years, there have been efforts to clear the curriculum of non-literacy subjects and activities, and noting the difficulty of determining what is and is not a curriculum distraction. It also notes that elementary students' English…

This paper discusses classical Arabic as a minority language for Moroccan children in Spanish schools. It highlights programs of "education des langues et cultures d'origine" (ELCO), which specifically target these students. ELCO is the only public program in Spain recognizing Arabic as an immigrant minority language. Intercultural…

Schoolwide programs form the centerpiece of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act's vision of enabling programs to work together and support the overall reforms of states, school districts, and schools. A schoolwide program may now use Title I, Part A funds coupled with other federal education funds to upgrade the school's entire educational…

This paper presents the idea of multimodal teaching and learning and discusses how this perspective can help better understand the learning of students. The discussion is based on data gathered in a qualitative study of a fifth-grade bilingual classroom where at-risk students were successful in mathematics. We report on one class episode and one…

The Sunflower/Girasol program is a Spanish/English bilingual science discovery program for Hispanic children in grades 2-6, designed to improve science instruction and educational opportunity for this group. The report describes the program's proposed activities and products, progress to date, and results of an evaluation of the first two units of…