Harper, Judith E.; Krouse, Judith; Prososki, Lisa (1999). Lesson Plans for "Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.". These lesson plans for high school students were developed to accompany the documentary film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes which tells the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and their lifelong fight for women's rights. In the lessons students write editorials about women's rights around the world today, interview senior citizens about how women's roles have changed in the 20th century, investigate women's legal rights over 200 years of U.S. history through primary documents, and explore the connections and conflicts between the suffrage and abolition movements in the United States in the 19th century. Each lesson plan suggests subject areas and an educational objective; lists materials needed; outlines procedural steps; suggests assessment and extension activities; and discusses National Standards. Includes a biography and extensive lists of books and Web sites. Provides organization addresses. (BT)…

Osborn, Elizabeth R. (2001). The Seneca Falls Convention: Teaching about the Rights of Women and the Heritage of the Declaration of Independence. ERIC Digest. Different groups at different times have turned to founding documents of the United States to meet their needs and to declare their entitlement to the promises of the Revolution of 1776. At Seneca Falls, New York in the summer of 1848, a group of U.S. men and women met to discuss the legal limitations imposed on women during this period. Their consciousness of those limitations had been raised by their participation in the anti-slavery movement. Eventually they used the language and structure of the Declaration of Independence to stake their claim to the rights they felt women were entitled to as U.S. citizens. This digest places the events of the Seneca Falls Convention within the larger context of U.S. reform movements of the 1840s, discusses the influence of the Declaration of Independence on the Convention, and provides teachers and students with a sampling of social studies curriculum resources such as primary source documents, books, articles, and lesson plans available… [PDF]

(2003). Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (86th, Kansas City, Missouri, July 30-August 2, 2003). Radio-Television Journalism Division. The Radio-Television Journalism Division of the proceedings contains the following 11 papers: "In Whose Best Interest? FCC Deregulation and Local News: How Cross-Ownership, National Caps, and Duopolies Are Addressed in Three Commissioned Studies" (Laura K. Smith); "Remembering the News: The Effect of Chronological Presentation of Information on Memory for Broadcast News" (Mark Kelley); "Job Satisfaction of Newsmagazine Correspondents Compared to Regular News Correspondents" (Cindy J. Price); "'It Looks Like a Fun Job!': An Examination of Media Exposure and the Cultivation of Perceptions about a Broadcast Journalism Career" (Laura M. Trendle Polus); "Sex, Drugs, and TV News: When a Reporter Is Arrested" (Mary Blue and Nancy McKenzie Dupont); "It's in the Visuals!: Journalists and Gender Issues in Television Network News Coverage of the 1996 U.S. Presidential Election" (Kimmerly S. Piper-Aiken); "Civil Liberties and… [PDF]

(2001). Family-Directed Transition Planning Guide. This guide to family-directed transition planning is intended to help parents and students with disabilities take leading roles in the process of transition from school to post-school activities. First, a letter to families examines the challenge of change and the transition process. Section 2 examines regulations that affect transition planning, including those services mandated under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Section 3 considers parent participation on the transition team and a chart lists many other potential participants and their roles. This section urges individualized transition planning and the promotion of independence, self-advocacy, and self-determination. Section 4 is on organizing transition planning, noting the importance of a variety of assessments including situational, environmental, and vocational/career assessment…. [PDF]

Cates, Kip; Jacobs, George M. (1999). Global Education in Second Language Teaching. Online Submission This article paints an optimistic picture of the role we second language teachers can play not only in improving our students' language proficiency but also in infusing global education into our classes as we join with our students to address global concerns, such as peace, prosperity, environmental protection, and human rights. The article is divided into four parts. The first part describes global education and identifies organizations of second language educators participating in global education. The second part of the article focuses on two key areas of global education: peace education and environmental education. Next, we address questions that second language teachers frequently ask about including global education in their teaching. Lastly, we supply lists of print and electronic resources on peace education and environmental education. The following are appended: (1) Peace Education Bibliography; and (2) Environmental Education Bibliography. [This article was published in… [PDF]

Oandasan, William (1981). Critique of NEH Code of Ethics. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, v5 n4 p41-44. The National Endowment for the Humanities' Code of Ethics for research of Native Americans, based on the Indian Religious Freedom Act (P.L. 95-561, 1978) and the National Historic Preservation Act (P.L. 96-515), is a model for awarding research grants. The Code will stimulate improved relations between scholars and Native Americans. (LC)…

Bennett, Clifford T.; Jordan, Ervin L., Jr. (1997). George Washington: A Hero for American Students?. Social Studies, v88 n4 p154-56 Jul-Aug. Discusses the career of George Washington with specific emphasis on his racial views and his role as a slaveholder. Describes Washington as a man bound by racial and political mores of his time. Although troubled by certain aspects of slavery, Washington directly benefited from the operation of this system. (MJP)…

Eynon, Bret (1996). Cast Upon the Shore: Oral History and New Scholarship on the Movements of the 1960s. Journal of American History, v83 n2 p560-570 Sep. Examines the dynamic and growing use of oral history in documenting the various social and political movements of the 1960s. Discusses those historical analyses and approaches particularly well served by oral history. Notes a decline in oral history in some areas due to logistical and funding difficulties. (MJP)…

Hildebrand, Janet (1991). Is Privacy Reserved for Adults? Children's Rights at the Public Library. School Library Journal, v37 n1 p21-25 Jan. Argues that the library has a responsibility to provide access to materials and ensure absolute privacy for children in the same manner as it does for adults. Attention this issue has received is discussed and policies formed at the Contra Costa County Library in California are described. Sources for further reading and listening are suggested. (SD)…

(1990). The Right of the People to be Secure. Update on Law-Related Education, v14 n1 p10-14 Win. Provides a lesson plan to involve students in classroom discussions of controversial issues. Includes such topics as the right to privacy, writs of assistance, and searching without a warrant. Provides an outline of a role-playing activity for students to use in the presentation of their arguments. (NL)…

Cox, William E,; Matthews, Frank L. (1989). Dr. Louis Sullivan: Treating America's Most Critical Health and Human Services Ills. Black Issues in Higher Education, v6 n17 p6-10 Nov. Interview with Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services. Discusses his views on health education, budget, access to health care, minority health, abortion, infant mortality, drugs, the Head Start Program, federal planning effects, and family influences. (JS)…

Nessel, Paula (1995). Instructional Resources. Update on Law-Related Education, v19 n1 p47-49 Win. Provides a 32-item annotated bibliography of recommended instructional materials on cultural pluralism, equal protection, and constitutional rights. Includes materials for both students and teachers. Categorizes the 32 items as books, periodicals, computer software, videotapes, and other materials. (CFR)…

Gordon, William M. (1994). The Implementation of Desegregation Plans since Brown. Journal of Negro Education, v63 n3 p310-22 Sum. Discusses the implementation of desegregation since Brown v Board of Education, focusing on the practical difficulties and promises associated with helping to make desegregation a reality from its beginnings to today's focus on achieving unitary status in formerly segregated school systems. Discussions include issues of freedom of choice, student assignment plans, and desegregation remedies for urban districts. (GR)…

Inniss, Leslie (1993). School Desegregation: Too High a Price?. Social Policy, v24 n2 p6-16 Win. Interviews indicate that black pioneers in school desegregation often feel that they have paid too high an emotional and psychological price for too little change in the whole system of race relations. The failure of early desegregation policy and of assimilation may be overcome through a genuine multicultural curriculum. (SLD)…

Miller, Lamar P.; Tanners, Lisa A. (1995). Diversity and the New Immigrants. Teachers College Record, v96 n4 p671-80 Sum. Schools are inadequately prepared to serve the needs of increasing numbers of culturally diverse students. Problems relate to desegregation, multicultural education, higher quality education, and bilingual education. New York City is used as an example, noting the school system's role in serving New York's immigrant students. (SM)…

Wells, Amy Stuart (1995). Reexamining Social Science Research on School Desegregation: Long- versus Short-Term Effects. Teachers College Record, v96 n4 p691-706 Sum. Summarizes the role of short-term and long-term effects of social science research in examining the impact of school desegregation policies on black students, discussing whether it works to improve student achievement. The article suggests that short-term effects research has traditionally been less informative than long-term effects research. (SM)…

Wilson, Des (1992). Teaching Human Rights in Nigerian Schools: A Multimedia Approach. Social Education, v56 n4 p227-28 Apr-May. Discusses the use of multimedia for teaching human rights in Nigerian schools. Describes the curriculum as almost completely monocultural. Argues that human rights education must be approached within traditional interests and based on what people already know. Urges the demystification of rights. Warns that human rights reflect a Eurocentric outlook and can be misused. (DK)…

Calpin, Joseph (1994). Remanding to Adult Court: You Make the Call. Teaching Strategy. Update on Law-Related Education, v18 n1 p40-45 Win. Presents a secondary lesson in which students participate in a role-playing exercise to determine whether or not a juvenile should be remanded to an adult court. Includes learning objectives and step-by-step implementation procedures. Also includes four student handouts representing legal issues, briefing sheets, and a mock police report. (CFR)…

Helms, Charles M.; Helms, Lelia B. (1994). Medical Education and Disability Discrimination: The Law and Future Implications. Academic Medicine, v69 n7 p535-43 Jul. Analysis of federal statutes and case law concerning disabilities suggests that medical educators may be expected to refine policies to identify when physicians with disabilities are otherwise qualified; the essential tasks performed by physicians; reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities; and how communication about disabilities should occur among administrators, faculty, and students. (Author/MSE)…

Rivkin, Steven G. (1994). Residential Segregation and School Integration. Sociology of Education, v67 n4 p279-92 Oct. Asserts that school districts' efforts to integrate schools have failed to ameliorate the racial isolation of black students. Finds that schools remain segregated primarily because of continued residential segregation and that school integration efforts have had little long-term effect on residential segregation. (CFR)…

Borkowski, Francis T. (1988). The University President's Role in Establishing an Institutional Climate to Encourage Minority Participation in Higher Education. Peabody Journal of Education, v66 n1 p32-45 Fall. Creating an institutional climate that positively addresses the needs of minority students depends heavily on administrators, faculty, and staff who share the responsibility of educating a diverse student body. The university president's role is that of a leader who understands the school's organizational culture and increases minority participation. (SM)…

Brar, Harbhajan Singh (1991). Unequal Opportunities: The Recruitment, Selection and Promotion Prospects for Black Teachers. Evaluation and Research in Education, v5 n1-2 p35-47. The 1988 Education Reform Act greatly impacted equal opportunities in recruitment and selection of black teachers in the United Kingdom. A case study examines recruitment and selection in London, noting that ad hoc practices (encouraged by the 1988 Act) perpetuates the poor position of black teachers. (SM)…

Lindsay, Beverly (1992). Dismantling Educational Apartheid: Case Studies from South Africa. Educational Foundations, v6 n2 p71-87 Spr. Discusses educational conditions resulting from South African apartheid and its sociopolitical manifestations through a synopsis of case studies, emphasizing the pivotal role of the principal in relation to characteristics of effective schools. Analyzes the challenges to local schools posed by apartheid and provides suggestions for new administrative roles and policies. (SM)…

Fernlund, Phyllis Maxey (1990). What Is a Democracy?. Update on Law-Related Education, v14 n3 p16-19 Fall. Outlines a two-day lesson for upper elementary and middle school students to help them define democracy and learn about types of world governments. Describes political features of five mythical countries and provides a chart of democracy's characteristics that students use to judge each country's democratic status. Includes background information for teachers. (NL)…

Tyack, David B. (1993). Constructing Difference: Historical Reflections on Schooling and Social Diversity. Teachers College Record, v95 n1 p8-34 Fall. Discusses the long history of social and political constructions of differences in United States society and public schools, including the social constructions of diversity, educators' policies for handling diversity, the influence of white ethnic groups, and racial and sex discrimination. (SM)…

Castle, Jane (1996). Strategies Against Oppression: A Case Study of the Background, Upbringing, and Education of Black Managers in Affirmative Action Programmes in South Africa. British Journal of Sociology of Education, v17 n4 p389-413 Dec. Profiles a series of black managers who have risen to successful positions through utilizing affirmative action programs in post-apartheid South Africa. The men credit the influence of their family, upbringing, and religion for their ability to persevere. Questions the social pathology theory assumption that a culture of poverty survives generations. (MJP)…

Johnson, Jackie; Miller, Barbara (1998). Using the Internet for Research. Teaching Strategy. Update on Law-Related Education, v22 n2 p37-40 Spr-Sum. Presents a lesson plan using the Internet to have students research significant events in the history of the expansion of constitutional rights. Includes a background statement, list of objectives, outline of procedures, handout with instructions and a list of suggested topics, and a handout for evaluating Web sites. (DSK)…

Fischman, Gustavo (1998). Donkeys and Superteachers: Structural Adjustment and Popular Education in Latin America. International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, v44 n2-3 p191-213. Explores the challenges and possibilities of popular education by examining the educational field after the application of structural adjustment programs in Latin America. Presents a critique of Gramsci's model of the organic intellectual as understood by many within popular education. Offers the specific example of a popular-education workshop in Argentina. Contains 67 references. (VWC)…

Densmore, Kathleen (1995). Education for Literacy. Urban Review, v27 n4 p299-320 Dec. Traces the development of critical scholarship in the sociology of education, focusing on its attempts to explain failure for low-income youth. The author also examines contemporary theoretical work in "critical" literacy and three historical instances of when critical literacy was practiced. It is argued that helping at-risk students requires challenging the societal power structure. (GR)…

Simon, Jo Anne (2000). Barlett v. N.Y. State Board of Law Examiners: Making the Case. Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, v10 n2 p101-05 Spr. This article discusses the court case of a woman with learning disabilities who applied to take the New York State Bar Examination and was denied testing accommodations. The issues in the case are examined, including the refusal of the New York State Board of Law Examiners to provide adequate accommodations. (CR)…