Authors propose a Staff Development Institute for Elementary and Secondary School teachers of Puerto Rican students, which will be concerned with the development of knowledge of Puerto Rican culture and specific professional skills. (Authors/MB)

The article discusses the English reading problems of New York City Puerto Ricans. (MF)

An overview of the education of the Spanish-speaking in the United States, covering the historical and current situation. A bibliography of 14 items is included. (JB)

Leftist students at the University of Puerto Rico are similar to New Left American students in father's political attitudes, religious attitudes, school enrollment, and intelligence. There exists an active leftist student organization which has grown in size and political prominence. (DM)

Report based upon work designed to study simultaneously the psychological, linguistic and sociological aspects of bilingual behavior. (FWB)

Describes the geographic distribution, demographic characteristics, and consumer preferences of Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans in the United States. Suggests that a projected rapid growth in numbers of Hispanics with unique characteristics will produce a consumer market that will require special attention from businesses. (Author/MJL)

Describes the underutilization of drug rehabilitation programs among Puerto Rican addicts because of the failure of the programs to consider Hispanic cultural differences. Six cultural values specific to Hispanics are evaluated for their psychological implications and suggestions are made for clinicians working with Hispanic drug addicts.…

Presents guidelines for the practice of minority counseling, focusing specifically on objectives for counseling Puerto Rican youth in the areas of self-development, knowledge of the world of work, and career planning. (SK)

Examined Rodman's theory of resources in cultural context to understand decision-making patterns among spouses in intergenerationally linked Puerto Rican families in the United States. Data indicated husbands in the parent generation with higher socioeconomic achievements, reflecting socialization to modern values, had less power in decision…

Compared vocabulary and block design subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and its Puerto Rican counterpart, the Escala de Inteligencia Wechsler para Adultos (EIWA), in hospitalized Latins and Trans-Caribbean Blacks. EIWA scores were significantly higher than WAIS scores. Equivalence of EIWA and WAIS estimates is questioned.…

Examined the relationships between Puerto Rican, Black, and Anglo adolescent children's career aspirations, expectations, and maturity and their parents' career values and career aspirations for them. Results suggest that career behavior differentially affects adolescent children's career development and that parent-child interaction may be…