Volume 5, Issue 4. 1974

Themes:

Native Americans; Latinos; Japanese; segregation; Chinese; nationalism; English as a Second Language (ESL); Puerto Rican; African American; Haitian Creole; assimilation; Mexican American Caribbean; discrimination; Cuban; institutional oppression; ethnocentrism

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Kik Reeder, Baryel Banfield, Albert V. Schwartz, Jane Califf, Vivian C. Gaman, Janice Law Trecker, Roberto Gautier, Susan Ribner, Ray Anthony Shepard, Jose G. Taylor, Jane Califf, Ed Celina Marcus, Nessa Darren

Materials Reviewed:

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lingren. Amazon / WorldCat
Black Is Brown Is Tan by Arnold Adoff. Amazon / WorldCat
Langston Hughes: American Poet by Alice Walker. Amazon / WorldCat
The All-American Coeds by Betsy Madden. Amazon / WorldCat
Not Bad for a Girl by Isabella Taves. Amazon / WorldCat
An Album of Puerto Ricans in the United States by Stuart J. Brahs. Amazon / WorldCat
Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture by Claudia Zaslavsky. Amazon / WorldCat
Lanterns for Fiesta by Suzanne Fulle. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Teaching Disadvantaged Children in the Pre-School by Carl Bereiter and Siegfried Engelmann
The Psychology of Language, Thought and Instruction by John DeCocco
An Evaluation of District Decentralized Projects, ESEA: Title I Programs in Community School District 14 by Institute for Educational Development
Education of the Disadvantaged by A. Harry Passow, Miriam Goldberg, and Abraham J. Tannenbaum
Language and Poverty, Perspectives on a Theme by Frederick Williams
Preventing Failure in the Primary Schools by Siegfried Engelmann
DISTAR Instructional System by Merle B. Gordon
Evaluation of ESEA Title I Programs in Community School 15 by Sheldon Kastner and Merrill Hollinshead
An Evaluation of the District Decentralized Programs, ESEA Title I: Group B: Basic Skills by Harold A. Vine and John S. Mayher
Conjure Tales by Ray Anthony Shepard
The Case of the Missing Money by Ray Anthony Shepard
Big Bill by Brenda Johnson
The Great Subway Chase by Margaret Cooper and Maureen Armour
Fear by Isabelle Lyles
The World Since 1500: A Global History by Leften Stavros Stavrianos
Europe Since 1914 by Gordon Craig
The Development of Civilization by Harry Carroll Jr.
Readings in Modern World Civilization by Leon Bernard and Theodore B. Hodges
Mandy and the Flying Map by Bev Allison
Fanshen the Magic Bear by Becky Sarah
Peter Learns to Crochet by Irene Levinson
Jo, Flo, and Yolanda by Carol de Poix
Carlotta and the Scientist by Patricia Riley Lenthall
The Magic Hat by Kim Westsmith Chapman
Teaching Children: A Child Management Program for Parents by Wesley C. Becker
Home Practice for Parent and Child by Wesley C. Becker

Keywords:

Geraldine L. Wilson, bilingual, Native American, Latino, Spanish, Mexico, Japanese, Asian, segregation, Chinese, World War I, nationalism, German, English as a Second Language (ESL), Puerto Rican, African American, Haitian Creole, assimilation, Kenji Hakuta, Jim Cummins, transitional, immersion, Mexican American, French, Canada, G. Richard Tucker, Caribbean, discrimination, Latino, Cuban, IQ testing, teacher education, institutional oppression, ethnocentrism, Teachers College, Columbia University, Richmond College, CUNY, Pennsylvania State University, Feminist Resources for Schools and Colleges, Marvin Franklin, Landres Dessisso, Terry Croom, Oren Lyon