The following award-winning dissertations in bilingual education are included here: (1) "The 1974 Bilingual Education Amendments: Revolution, Reaction, or Reform" by Susan Gilbert Schneider; (2) "(Memory Organization, Bilingualism, and Interlingual Interference: A Comparative Analysis of the Semantic Distance and Semantic Judgment of English Monolingual and Spanish-English Bilingual Students" by Ramanand Durga; (3) "The Effect of Auditory Discrimination Training of Spanish-Speaking Children on Auditory Discrimination and Sound-Letter Associations" by Virginia Reyes Kramer; (4) "Availability as a Measure of the Oral Spanish Lexicon of the Pre-K and K Chicano Child in Tucson, Arizona" by William James Fisher; (5) "Bilingual-Bicultural Instructional Aide Roles as Perceived by Teachers, Administrators, and Instructional Aides" by Maria N. Ortiz; (6) "A Sociolinguistic Study of Crow Language Maintenance" by John A.S. Read; (7) "A Comparative Study of Two Approaches of Introducing Initial Reading to Navajo Children: The Direct Method and the Native-Language Method" by Paul Rosier; and (8) A Status Survey of Texas Bilingual-Bicultural Education Programs" by Ernesto Zamora. (JB)