Administrators Conferences on Language and Cultural Differences: Collected Papers.

These papers were presented at a series of conferences on language and cultural differences organized by the Texas Education Agency to help school administrators deal with bilingual education, racial integration, and implementation of court orders. The papers address five areas of concern: the concept and definition of culture, culture and the arts, culture and educational aptitude, culture and language, and culture and social institutions. The following papers are included: (1) Confluence of Texan Cultures in Curriculum Planning by Melvin P. Sikes, (2) What Do We Mean by Culture and What Does This Have to Do with the Schools? by Roger Abrahams. (3) Culture and Communication: Clashes in the Classroom by Manuel Pacheco, (4) What is Dialect? by Lois Jean Hart, (5) Culture and Communication: Clashes in the Classroom by Gustavo Gonzalez, (6) Roles of the Schools Toward Cultural Groups by Earl Jones, (7) The Trichroism of the Arts by Hugo D. Marple, (8) Children's Folklore by Richard Bauman, (9) Culture and Educational Aptitude by E. W. Rand, (10) Culture and Educational Testing by Earl Jones, and (11) The Uses of Biculturalism by Chester Christian. (CHK)