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)…

Menacker, Julius (1998). Teaching Strategy: Rights, Teens, and Society. Update on Law-Related Education, v22 n3 p47-49 Fall. Describes a lesson for secondary students where they identify the most positive and negative features of current law governing the status of minors and the relationship of adults to children. Provides a sample of court cases and a list of issues affecting teen-age rights and protections. (CMK)…

Hartell, C. G.; Maile, S. (2004). HIV/AIDS and Education: A Study on How a Selection of School Governing Bodies in Mpumalanga Understand, Respond to and Implement Legislation and Policies on HIV/AIDS. International Journal of Educational Development, v24 n2 p183-199 Mar. Very little research has been done in South Africa on HIV/AIDS and education. This article is a small attempt to plug the gap. The purpose of the research is to investigate the legal and policy provisions and implications regarding HIV/AIDS for rural and township schools in the Mpumalanga district of South Africa. It seeks to answer three questions: (1) What is the status of policy and legislation on HIV/AIDS and Education in South Africa? (2) How do schools understand, respond to and manage issues of law and policy regarding HIV/AIDS? (3) What are the possible areas of conflict between legal and policy provisions and educational practices and behaviours? After examining the different laws relating to HIV/AIDS and education in South Africa a case study approach is used to explore the research questions in a number of rural and township schools. The findings highlighted a general ignorance of basic human rights issues, the right to confidentiality, the right to security from… [Direct]

Bainbridge, D.; Cooper, S.-A.; Davis, R.; Fujiura, G.; Heller, T.; Holland, A.; Kerr, M.; Krahn, G.; Lennox, N.; Meaney, J.; O'Hara, D.; Scheepers, M.; Wehmeyer, M. (2005). Reducing Health Disparity in People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Report from Health Issues Special Interest Research Group of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, v2 n3-4 p249-255 Sep. Disparities in the health status and care experienced by people with intellectual disabilities are increasingly being recognized. This special report presents the results of an international expert consensus workshop held under the auspices of the Health Issues Special Interest Research Group of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities. The workshop's presentations were designed to identify domains of health disparity and identify examples of evidence-based or good practice and from them define statements and recommendations that would form the basis of an agenda for change. The report recognizes the breadth of domains that impact on disparity in health among people with intellectual disabilities by highlighting the importance of classification and the direct recognition of the increased morbidity and reduced life expectancy that these people experience. The report also considers population-based causes of disparity relating to social… [Direct]

Bigirindavyi, Jean-Paul (2004). Youth Intervention for Peace Project: Burundi Case Study. New Directions for Youth Development, n102 p81-94 Sum. The experience of Rwanda's genocide in 1994 shocked the world into disbelief as Western media finally focused their attention on the region's ongoing conflict. Yet little is being done today to prevent the reproduction of a parallel disaster in its twin country, Burundi, where similar conflict patterns may spark another intensely violent civil dispute. The death count has already reached an estimated 300,000 since 1993. While efforts for peace focus on higher levels of diplomacy and negotiation, the situation of community interethnic violence in Burundi and, in particular, the fundamental role of youth in it, have largely been ignored. Despite the encouraging developments of a peace process and cease-fire agreement, Burundi's civil society and community structure remains divided along the lines of its two major ethnic groups: Hutu and Tutsi. Without a social infrastructure to support peace and withstand violence at the community level, Burundi's chance for sustained peace is… [Direct]

Monyatsi, Pedzani Perci (2005). Transforming Schools into Democratic Organisations: The Case of the Secondary Schools Management Development Project in Botswana. International Education Journal, v6 n3 p354-366 Jul. As a democratic country which aims at nurturing and sustaining its envied democracy, organisations in Botswana are expected and encouraged to build and maintain democratic structures and principles. In September 1993, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Botswana and the then British Overseas Development Agency (ODA) launched an ambitious joint venture, the Secondary Schools Management Development Project (SSMDP) whose main objective was to raise management standards in secondary schools through the democratisation of the structures which had hitherto been authoritarian. This paper is based on a quantitative study undertaken in a number of randomly selected secondary schools from all over the country after a decade of the launch. The paper evaluates the extent to which the SSMDP was effective in transforming the management of secondary schools in Botswana since 1993. However, it first gives a background by reviewing relevant literature in an attempt to showcase the nature of… [PDF] [Direct]

Cunningham, Denis (2003). The \Federation Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes (FIPLV)\ and Language Rights. Current Issues in Language Planning, v4 n2 p161-171 Apr. This paper outlines work undertaken by FIPLV as an affiliate of UNESCO in the development of a document outlining linguistic human rights. The paper examines how subsequent drafts have been modified and identifies some of the difficulties experienced in developing the drafts. After more than two decades of work, the process is still incomplete. (Contains 1 note.)… [Direct]

Haavelsrud, Magnus (2004). Target: Disarmament Education. Journal of Peace Education, v1 n1 p37-57 Mar. Departing from UNESCO disarmament education guidelines, a conceptual framework is presented in which disarmament is seen in relation to the overall question of peace, which also includes problems of development and human rights. The need for disarmament is based on arguments related not only to disarmament \per se\, but also to the need for development and the realization of human rights. As a consequence, the violence and causes of militarism are seen not only in the perspective of direct violence, but also in the perspective of structural violence. Thus, the violence and causes of militarism include the problems of development and human rights at all levels. In addition to these two components, it is argued that the need for disarmament must also be determined in relation to its opposite, namely visions of disarmament and the transformation process at all levels towards such visions. Thus, the substance to be dealt with in disarmament education needs to be related to all of these… [Direct]

Graham, Richard D.; Hall, Richard F.; Hoover, Gail A. (2004). Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: A Victim's Remedies and a Private University's Liability. Education and the Law, v16 n1 p33-45 Mar. Sexual harassment is a pervasive problem in education. With victims of harassment pursuing administrative and judicial redress, an awareness of and a program for response to the sexual harassment issue are good risk management strategies for a private university and its staff, employees, and students. This article examines, first, the two types of sexual harassment recognized by law; second, the situations in which harassment in the educational context may occur; and, third, avenues of recourse for the victim of sexual harassment and the responsibility and liability of the private university when the harassment is reported or discovered. It is designed to inform and educate the faculty and administrators of private universities about the legal implications of their response to notice of sexual harassment…. [Direct]

Suoranta, Juha (2002). From Gothenburg to Everywhere: Bonfires of Revolutionary Learning. Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, v24 n1-2 p29-47 Jan. Living social reality is always faster than any attempt to document it. Documentation will always remain inevitably partial. Critical leaders and teachers need to keep themselves sensible to those incidents which demand close attention in terms of social justice as well as emancipatory and revolutionary learning. "Revolutionary learning" refers to an important remark by Peter McLaren, who writes about such power/knowledge relations which critically reflect their own internal contradictions and give birth "not to an epistemological resolution at a higher level but rather to a provisional glimpse of a new society freed from the bondage of the past, a vision in which the past reverberates in the present, standing at once outside the world and beside the world, in a place of insight where the subject recognizes she is in a world and subject to it, yet moving through it with the power to name it extopically so that hidden meanings can be revealed in the accidental… [Direct]

Williamson, Joy Ann (2004). \Brown\, Black, and Yellow: Desegregation in a Multi-Ethnic Context. History of Education Quarterly, v44 n1 p109-112 Spr. The Brown decisions have become part of the collective American memory. Students know that the 1954 decision ended legalized segregation in elementary and secondary schools and rightly understand it as a benchmark in educational history. However, when pressed for information on the decisions, few have ever read the original court documents and even fewer realize there were two separate decisions, that four states and the District of Columbia were involved, and that the South fought aggressively for years to nullify their effect on school attendance. This article discusses the Brown decisions by focusing on the Education for Liberation class. The primary purpose of the class is to trace and understand the location of education in the struggle for equal rights and liberation. (Contains 7 resources.)… [Direct]

Schoeman, Sonja (2006). A Blueprint for Democratic Citizenship Education in South African Public Schools: African Teachers' Perceptions of Good Citizenship. South African Journal of Education, v26 n1 p129-142. The notion that South African public schools have a distinctively civic mission is recognised in all national education policy documents published since the first democratic election in 1994. The teaching of democratic citizenship education in public schools is a newcomer to South Africa. The purpose in this article is to summarise scholars' views on the attributes of a good citizen and the role of the school in this regard and to report the outcomes of a research project on African teachers' perceptions on the factors contributing to good citizenship. Ascertaining what scholars and African teachers thought would provide a reasonable starting point for addressing the issue of education for democratic citizenship in South African public schools…. [PDF]

Williams, Mary Louise (1997). Human Rights–The Answer to Peace? Teaching Strategy. Update on Law-Related Education, v21 n1 p9-11 Win. Presents a lesson plan teaching students to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness and importance of human rights to world peace. Instructional handouts form the basis for student discussion on the history, need, and future of human rights. Debriefing serves as a check to determine whether students understand the material. (MJP)…

(2007). 27th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," 2005. Volume 2. US Department of Education This 2005 Annual Report to Congress has two volumes. This volume consists of tables that also were compiled from data provided by the states. Such data are required under the law. In fact, collection and analysis of these data are the primary means by which the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) monitors activities under the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" ("IDEA"), thereby helping to ensure the free appropriate public education of all children with disabilities. Data tables in Volume 2 cover a multitude of topics regarding states' implementation of "IDEA," Parts B and C. In the analysis of data presented in Volume 1, there are frequent references to specific tables in Volume 2 as sources. In that sense, Volume 2 can be used as an appendix to Volume 1. However, the tables in Volume 2 provide much more extensive data than are referenced in Volume 1. As such, they may be used by anyone interested in doing further analysis of state… [PDF]

Anderson, Winifred; And Others (1997). Negotiating the Special Education Maze: A Guide for Parents & Teachers. Third Edition. Designed to assist parents and teachers in understanding the complex procedures of special education, this book describes the process for obtaining school services for children with disabilities. An introduction reviews six major provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) that relate to children's rights to a free, appropriate public education and parent involvement in decision-making. The following chapters address: (1) the special education planning cycle and key people in the process; (2) ways for parents to develop and provide critical information to professionals working with their child; (3) referral and evaluation; (4) school records and reports; (5) eligibility decisions; (6) Individualized Education Programs (IEPs); (7) IEP meetings; (8) early intervention; (9) transition from school; (10) due process procedures, with examples of conflicts resolved in due process hearings provided; (11) nondiscrimination protection; and (12) monitoring the services…

Russo, Charles J.; Thomas, Stephen B. (1995). Special Education Law: Issues & Implications for the '90s. The "Declaration of Independence" guarantees Americans the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, these rights have not been uniformly available to all citizens. Individuals with disabilities, for example, have received unequal treatment and have been victims of both intentional and unintentional discrimination. This book reviews issues in special educational law and describes the legal responsibilities of schools in relation to students with disabilities. Chapter 1 describes changes in laws offering broad-based protection to students with disabilities. The second chapter describes concerns related to the provision of a free appropriate education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment (LRE) for all eligible children with disabilities. Chapter 3 discusses issues of related services, some of which include: transportation; medical, health, and psychological services; assistive technology devices and services; sign-language interpreter; speech,…