SIG/REAPA Program for New Orleans, April 24-28, 2000 Business and Membership Meeting Session 7.07, Monday, 6:15-7:45, Sheraton, Ponchartrain F, 3rd Floor PRESIDENT: A. Lin Goodwin, Teachers College, Columbia University TREASURER: Carrolyn K. Iwamoto, National Board of Medical Examiners SECRETARY: Kwang Suk Yoon, University of Michigan PROGRAM CHAIR: Clara C. Park, CSU, Northridge NEWSLETTER EDITOR: William Greene, Southern Oregon University WEB-SITE MANAGER: Daniel D. Blaine, University of Hawaii Symposium: Emerging Difference: Theorizing Asian American Education CHAIR: Nina Asher, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge PARTICIPANTS: Stacey Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lena D. Choe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Joy Lei, University of Wisconsin-Madison DISCUSSANT: A. Lin Goodwin, Teachers College, Columbia University Symposium: Voyages of Pacific Islanders Through American Education Session 12.47, Tuesday, 10:35-12:05, Marriott, Mardi Gras A, 3rd Floor CHAIR: Joanne E. Cooper, University of Hawaii PARTICIPANTS: Invisible Minorities: Pacific Islanders in American Education Institutions. Rosemary Casey, University of Hawaii Voyage towards Teaching: Native American Perspectives on the Decision to Teach. Claire Asam, University of Hawaii The Indigenous Researcher: The Pitch and Peril of Conducting Research with Native Hawaiians. Walter Kahumoku III Moving beyond Margaret Mead: A Voyage Through Cross-cultural Waters. Joanne Cooper, Sina Peau Ward, University of Hawaii DISCUSSANT: Morris Lai, University of Hawaii Interactive Paper: Bilingual Identity Formation, Retention, and Success of Asian and Pacific American Students in K-College Session 45.60, Friday, 10:35-12:05, Le Meridien, Maurepas, 3rd Floor CHAIR: A. Lin Goodwin, Teachers College, Columbia University PARTICIPANTS: Correlates of Retention for Asian Pacific Americans in Community Colleges: The Case of Hawaiian Students. Linda Hagedorn, University of Southern California; Teresa Makuakane-Drechsel, Kamehameha School Bishop Estate Parental Teaching of Mathematics in Chinese American and European American Families. Carol Huntsinger, Shari L. Larson, College of Lake County; Dana Balsink Krieg, Paul E. Jose, Loyola University, Chicago Explorations in Bicultural Identity. Sapna Vyas, Michigan State University Cambodian Refugee Children in General Music Classrooms. Carol Richardson, University of Michigan Are Heritage Language and Culture Important to Vietnamese Elementary and Middle School Students? Fay Shin, CSU Stanislaus DISCUSSANT: Eun Sook Hong, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Roundtables Session 35.41, Thursday, 12:25-1:05, Marriot, Carondelet, 3rd Floor TABLE 38: Children's Literature and the Chinese Community: Teaching Literature, Teaching Culture. Miguel Lopez, NYU TABLE 39: Educating Asian American English Language Learners at Risk of School Failure through Teacher Collaboration. Ji-Mei Chang, San Jose State University TABLE 40: Accommodation of Knowledge Mapping Tasks for Korean American Students. John Lee, UCLA TABLE 41: What Preservice Teachers Bring to the Classroom: How Sociocultural Experiences Shape Future Teachers of Diverse Learners. Paulinne Chinn, University of Hawaii TABLE 42: Factors Affecting Heritage Language Development. Grace Cho, Biola University, CA TABLE 43: Lao Newcomers and Midwest "Natives." Mary Manke, University of Wisconsisn, River Falls TABLE 44: Crosscultural Study of Korean and Japanese Father's Childrearing Practices. Young-Rim Hur, Suwon University, Korea Search the 2000 AERA Annual Meeting Program