Lake, Monte (1982). ADEA Litigation: Substantive Requirements. Aging and Work, v5 n4 p213-21. Discusses the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the interpretations of it by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (JOW)…

Melton, Gary B. (1982). Legal Reforms Affecting Child and Youth Services: An Introduction. Child and Youth Services, v5 n1-2 p1-4 Spr-Sum. Several Supreme Court decisions in the last 15 years have demonstrated expanding recognition of the rights of minors and other dependent groups. At the same time, these recent trends have engendered conflicts concerning minors' competence to make judgments, relationships between child and family autonomy, and differing interests in child advocacy. (Author/MJL)…

Fikes, Robert Jr. (1982). Jean-Baptiste Belley-Mars: The Obscure Life, the Authentic Legacy. Negro History Bulletin, v45 n1 p17-18 Jan-Mar. Describes how Jean-Baptiste Belley-Mars, a former slave, influenced Haitian history through his role in arguing for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies at the 1794 Paris National Convention. (MJL)…

Vitello, Stanley J. (1981). Mental Retardation Law in 1980: A Review. Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, v16 n3 p222-24 Oct. Educational and deinstitutionalization law cases decided during 1980 with relevance for mentally retarded persons are reviewed. Noted is the possibility of a period of legal retrenchment regarding the rights of retarded persons. (CL)…

Fisher, Leonard Everett (1982). Creative Rights and American Destiny. Language Arts, v59 n3 p224-30 Mar. Discusses within a historical context First Amendment freedoms, censorship, and the rights of Americans to visual and literary creativity. (HTH)…

Flygare, Thomas J. (1981). Florida Teacher Establishes Constitutional Right to Breast-Feed Her Baby. Phi Delta Kappan, v63 n3 p206 Nov. A kindergarten teacher in the Orange County (Florida) school system has established the constitutional right to breast-feed her baby. The author concludes that policy directives should be narrowly drawn to further important educational interests, which should result in sounder policies and reduced litigation. (WD)…

Nolte, Chester M. (1979). Children and the Courts: From Chattels to Persons in Our Time. Contemporary Education, v50 n4 p231-37 Sum. Judicial intervention in educational matters supplements the legislative actions of the Constitution in protecting the rights of children. (LH)…

Raccah, Pierre-Yves (1979). Les informations d'une ambiguite (essai d'analyse de la responsabilite civile) Information in Ambiguity (An Attempt at an Analysis of Civic Responsibility). Langages, n53 p87-102 Mar. Discusses the relationship between linguistic analysis of a legal text and the various possible interpretations of the same text. An example is taken from civic duties ideology. (AM)…

Ramdas, Lalita (1997). Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Global Knowledge: The Challenge and the Potential. Convergence, v30 n4 p34-40. Reflections on the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education address continuing social inequities, negative effects of globalization, adult education's role in empowerment and human rights education, and the importance of emphasizing the fundamental interconnectedness of all people. (SK)…

Banja, John D.; Higgins, Patricia (1989). Videotaping Therapeutic Sessions and the Right of Privacy. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, v4 n1 p65-74 Mar. The article examines the usefulness of videotaping therapeutic sessions in rehabilitation settings and provides suggestions for rehabilitation professionals contemplating videotaping in light of the patient's legal and ethical right to privacy. (Author/DB)…

Stamps, David (1995). Just How Scary Is the ADA?. Training, v32 n6 p93-98,100-01 Jun. The Americans with Disabilities Act is the object of misperception and fear despite numerous court rulings favoring employers. Most confusion arises in areas of overlap with other state and federal employment laws. (SK)…

Ellis, James W. (1990). Presidential Address 1990: Mental Retardation at the Close of the 20th Century: A New Realism. Mental Retardation, v28 n5 p263-67 Oct. The President of the American Association on Mental Retardation offers a newly realistic approach to mental retardation, requiring honest assessment of the impact of mental retardation, full rights for people with mental retardation, public policies to enhance integration, and awareness of sources of peril to the lives and freedom of people with mental retardation. (JDD)…

Yoshida, Shoya (1992). A Struggle for Human Rights: The Japanese Spinners' 106-Day Strike of 1954. Labour Education, n87 p28-34. Inhumane working conditions led to a strike of Japanese silk spinners and formation of a union. Company repression provoked public opinion, resulting in acceptance of worker demands for recognition of human rights in the workplace. (SK)…

Hequet, Marc (1993). The Intricacies of Interviewing. Training, v30 n4 p31-33,35-36 Apr. Presents guidelines for interviewing job candidates with disabilities, in terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Addresses reasonable accommodation issues. (SK)…

Belson, Suzanne; McKee, Christine (1990). The Ombudsman in Canadian Universities: And Justice for All. Studies in Higher Education, v15 n2 p197-206. This paper examines the ombudsman concept; factors which influenced the adoption of the ombudsman concept by Canadian universities; factors associated with the effectiveness of ombudsman offices; and comparative studies of university ombudsmen. It concludes that programs following the traditional ombudsman model appear to be most accepted and effective. (Author/MLW)…

Daynes, Kristine S. (1990). Disabilities Act in Action. Personnel (AMA), v67 n10 p11-12 Oct. Eight true or false questions explore implications of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Topics include AIDS, drug abuse, undue hardship, reasonable accommodation, and company size affected by the law. (SK)…

Conley, Terri D.; Rabow, Jerome; Stein, Jill M. (1999). Teaching Social Justice and Encountering Society: The Pink Triangle Experiment. Youth & Society, v30 n4 p483-514 Jun. Studied student reflections and responses when they took on a stigmatized role, wearing a pink triangle in support of gay rights. Many of the 103 college students advanced through stages of identity development and moved to more open and positive ways of thinking about others. (SLD)…

Kirschbaum, Beth E. (2000). The Reasonable Accommodation of Last Resort: A Guide to Reassignment under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Journal of Intergroup Relations, v27 n2 p47-60 Sum. Presents information to help employers, employees, and enforcement agencies understand the scope of the duty to reassign disabled employees, thus providing reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Examines the legal framework, case law, and administrative guidelines, proposing a path to follow in determining when reassignment is reasonable accommodation, how to accomplish it, and when reassignment constitutes undue hardship. (SM)…

Standing, Guy (1999). From Labour to Work: The Global Challenge. World of Work, n31 p18-19 Sep-Oct. Discusses the shift from rights of labor through the right to labor, to the duty to labor and the changes that have resulted. Suggests that the result is global awareness of pervasive social and economic insecurity. (Author/JOW)…

Armstrong, Paul; Edwards, Richard; Miller, Nod (2001). Include Me Out: Critical Readings of Social Exclusion, Social Inclusion and Lifelong Learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education, v20 n5 p417-28 Sep-Oct. Social inclusion appears to be an unconditional good. Examination of social policy studies and poststructuralist philosophy suggests that "inclusion" is positioned within a philosophy of identity that denies difference and is thus exclusionary. Promoting social inclusion heightens awareness of difference. The rights of those who choose not to be included must be protected. (Contains 35 references.) (SK)…

Blumenstyk, Goldie (2002). Crusader for the Rights of Research Volunteers. Chronicle of Higher Education, v48 n18 pA34-A36 Jan. Describes how Alan C. Milstein has sued universities and scientists in an effort to protect the rights of people who volunteer as research subjects. (EV)…

Zuriff, G. E. (2002). Inventing Racism. Public Interest, n146 p114-28 Win. Discusses the form racism takes in the United States, highlighting three types of racism that social scientists and scholars find to be pervasive today (modern racism, aversive racism, and implicit stereotypes). All three depart from traditional understandings of racism by being found not in overt actions and expressions but in political opinion, social evaluations, word associations, and rationalization. (SM)…

(2001). Alabama University Professor's View of the Birmingham Bombing Trial. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n32 p110-14 Sum. Presents the views of Alabama university scholars regarding the historical significance of the 2001 trial of Thomas Blanton for his role in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama thet killed four girls. Their discussions note the need to examine the American judicial system, the weak case against Mr. Blanton, and the message of hope the trial provided. (SM)…

Rulli, Daniel F. (2004). Robert E. Lee's Demand for the Surrender of John Brown. Social Education, v68 n5 p306 Sep. The featured document that is the main topic of this article, Robert E. Lee's Demand for the Surrender of John Brown and his Party [at Harpers Ferry], October 18, 1859, is from the Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917; Record Group 94, and is in the holdings of the National Archives. As a part of "Teaching with Documents", a regular department of "Social Education", this article provides a number of teaching suggestions using the featured document. It provides a guide for document analysis with students, questions for discussion, suggestions for small group research, and a list of web sites for Cross Curricular Activity….

Morris, Bonnie J. (2005). A Teacher Fears for Kids over Freshly Ambushed Gay Rights. Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, v71 n1 p44-46 Sep. In this article, the author talks about the passing of new laws forbidding gay marriage or legal recognition of same-sex unions in the United States and the impact of the gay rights issue on students. Across the nation, faculty who enjoy secure academic appointments, work with caring colleagues, and reside in university towns are subject to new state laws banning gays from adopting children or serving as foster parents, and denying their domestic partnerships any legal status. Here, the author, who lectures on the history of segregation and intermarriage laws in the country, describes how it feels to be the target of state and federal discrimination in a nation that is deeply divided over gay rights…. [Direct]

Amado, Liz Ercevik; Ilkkaracan, Pinar (2005). Human Rights Education as a Tool of Grassroots Organizing and Social Transformation: A Case Study from Turkey. Intercultural Education, v16 n2 p115-128 May. Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR) — New Ways has been carrying out a "Human Rights Education Program for Women" throughout Turkey for over a decade, in cooperation with community centers. The training has a holistic, comprehensive nature, linking several areas of human rights through a critical gender perspective lens. One of the overarching aims of the program is to support women's grassroots organizing in economically disadvantaged areas by equipping women to mobilize around self-identified needs. This article focuses on the impact of the program on women, methodological factors that contribute to its success and its role as a catalyst to promote social transformation at the local level…. [Direct]

Miller, Katrina R. (2004). Linguistic Diversity in a Deaf Prison Population: Implications for Due Process. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, v9 n1 p112-119 Win. The entire deaf prison population in the state of Texas formed the basis for this research. The linguistic skills of prison inmates were assessed using the following measures: (1) Kannapell's categories of bilingualism, (2) adaptation of the diagnostic criteria for Primitive Personality Disorder, (3) reading scores on the Test of Adult Basic Education, and (4) an evaluation of sign language use and skills by a certified sign language interpreter who had worked with deaf inmates for the past 17 years. Deaf inmates with reading scores below the federal standard for literacy (grade level 2.9) were the group most likely to demonstrate linguistic incompetence to stand trial, meaning that they probably lacked the ability to understand the charges against them and/or were unable to participate in their own defenses. Based on the language abilities and reading scores of this population, up to 50% of deaf state prison inmates may not have received due process throughout their arrest and…

Reindl, Travis (2004). Academic Bill of Rights: Insurance Policy or Trojan Horse?. College and University, v80 n1 p47-48 Sum. Anyone can observe that rising social and political divisions have found their way onto the nation's campuses. In fact, the intensity of debates over issues such as war and peace, homosexuality, and affirmative action have transformed campuses–the marketplace of ideas–into an ideological battleground, with heated rhetoric in lecture halls and beyond. Some groups contend, however, that classrooms on many campuses are places of liberal indoctrination, rather than intense discussion and dialogue. As a result, organizations such as Students for Academic Freedom believe that legislative protections are needed to ensure a free and fair exchange of views. In this article, the author discusses how the Academic Bill of Rights can become the solution to this issue…. [Direct]

Chung, Rita Chi-Ying (2005). Women, Human Rights, and Counseling: Crossing International Boundaries. Journal of Counseling & Development, v83 n3 p262 Sum. The fast-paced movement of globalization has affected all walks of life including professional counselors. As the world becomes more accessible, increased instances of social injustice on a global scale have become more apparent, with women and children being especially identified as victims of social injustice and human rights violations (World Health Organization [WHO], 2003). Professional counselors in developed industrial countries can no longer ignore this situation but instead must be proactive in addressing social injustices and human rights, both on a national and an international level. The purpose of this article is to examine, from an international perspective, the role of professional counselors in the context of working with women both in the U.S. and internationally. The aim of the article is threefold: (a) to heighten awareness and understanding of the interrelationship of global women's issues within the profession of counseling, especially as it relates to women,…

Ryan, Katherine (2005). Making Educational Accountability More Democratic. American Journal of Evaluation, v26 n4 p532-543. Educational accountability is a fundamental right of citizens in a democratic society serving the public interest. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 holds states, school districts, public officials, educators, parents, and students accountable through auditable performance standards. At the same time, the lack of discussion about how to decide what educational outcomes should be typifies a climate of control. This article proposes making educational accountability more democratic by constructing democratic accountability within the context of a local school and/or district as a democratic conversation. The foundations of democratic accountability, the meaning of democratic accountability, and how its meaning is constructed (including accountability for what and to whom and how it is implemented) are outlined…. [Direct]