Peach, Larry E.; Reddick, Thomas L. (1982). What Secondary School Teachers Should Know about Tort Liability. Clearing House, v55 n9 p392-93 May. Discusses the three types of tort action: intentional interference, strict liability, and negligence and offers guidelines for use by teachers in avoiding legal actions in tort. (FL)…

Ridge, Martin (1981). Multiple Loyalties: An American Dilemma. Society, v19 n1 p59-62 Nov-Dec. The movement toward a new pluralism has created options for an officially sanctioned bicultural/bilingual America. The United States now must decide whether bicultural/bilingual policies should make it possible for people to function fully as citizens without the use of English. (Author/MJL)…

McCarthy, Martha M. (1981). Education for the Handicapped: Lawyers and Judges Will Decide What Your Schools Can and Can't Do for Students. American School Board Journal, v168 n7 p24-25 Jul. Reviews recent legal decisions on educational and related services that must be provided to handicapped students under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. (WD)…

Lyons, Charles M. (1981). Due Process and Children with Special Needs. Journal for Special Educators, v17 n3 p244-49 Spr. The article briefly reviews the history of due process of law in special education, notes key states and federal pieces of legislation, and lists six necessary components of due process procedures (such as timely and written notice, opportunity to respond to the substnce of the notice, and opportunity for appeal of the decision). (DB)…

Stenzler, Yale (1980). Maryland Districts Restructure Procedures to Meet Minority Purchasing Goal. School Business Affairs, v46 n9 p22-23 Aug. Maryland has passed legislation requiring school districts to structure their purchasing procedures to attempt to reach a goal of purchasing at least 10 percent of the dollar value of goods and/or services from minority enterprises when funds are provided through the Public School Construction Program (PSCP). (Author/MLF)…

Pisapia, John (1980). The Legal Basis of Administrator Bargaining. NOLPE School Law Journal, v9 n1 p61-84. After analyzing state legislation on administrator bargaining, the author concludes that more conservative interpretations of managerial status may combine with the delegation of managerial authority to administrators to remove the legal basis for administrator bargaining. (Author/IRT)…

Zemke, Ron (1981). Sexual Harassment: Is Training the Key?. Training, v18 n2 p22,27-28,30,34 Feb. Discusses the complexity of the problem of unwelcome workplace sex. Gives a short history of the issue, the legal problems, advice for handling harassment, and the true cost of an office romance. Discusses training strategies which would be helpful in overcoming the problem. (JOW)…

Markham, Barbara (1980). Child Abuse Intervention: Conflicts in Current Practice and Legal Theory. Pediatrics, v65 n1 p180-85 Jan. Recent litigation of child abuse cases indicates that two contradictory policies compete for court approval. One policy would reduce the amount of intervention into abusive families on grounds of privacy. The other seeks to maintain and expand channels of investigation and treatment. Journal Availability: American Academy of Pediatrics, P.O. 1304, Evanston, IL 60204. (Author)…

Reed, Thomas J. (1978). Age Discrimination in Employment: The 1978 ADEA Amendments and the Social Impact of Aging. University of Puget Sound Law Review, v2 n1 p15-88 Fall. Discusses the history of age discrimination in employment and the recommendations of investigating groups. Examines the provisions of Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, judicial interpretations of the act, its shortcomings, and the attempts to remedy its weaknesses. Available from University of Puget Sound School of Law, 8811 South Tacoma Way, Tacoma, Washington 98499; sc $3.50. (Author/PGD)…

(1977). Desegration and Equality. Today's Education, 66, 1, 22-5, Jan-Feb 77. Equality of educational opportunity for all students seems to be a far less widely achieved goal than is the fact of desegregation–a fact that in itself is not uniformly established. (MB)…

Dresden, Elissa; McCreary, Linda L.; McElmurry, Beverly J. (2003). Approaching Ethical Reasoning in Nursing Research through a Communitarian Perspective. Journal of Professional Nursing, v19 n5 p295-304 Sep-Oct. Case studies depict dilemmas in nursing research involving protection of community rights and community informed consent. Outlines research guidelines derived from communitarian ethical frameworks that consider beneficence, justice, and respect for autonomy in the context of community. (Contains 58 references.) (SK)…

Carr-Stewart, Sheila (2001). A Treaty Right to Education. Canadian Journal of Education, v26 n2 p125-43. Focuses on the intentions and expectations of education as a treaty right by the original signatories to treaties signed by representatives of the British Crown and First Nations in the 1870s in Canada. First Nations peoples in Canada today demand the fulfillment of their treaty rights to education, but Canada administers education within the boundaries of its own legislation. (SLD)…

Black, Elizabeth L.; Greenan, James P.; Wu, Mingchang (2002). Perspectives on Employing Individuals with Special Needs. Journal of Technology Studies, v28 n1 p29-37 Win-Spr. Responses from 190 of 250 Indiana businesses surveyed found employers somewhat aware of legislation and assistive technology for people with disabilities, willing to hire them, and satisfied with their potential and performance. Public support was an important incentive for employers in providing services for the employment of people with disabilities. (Contains 24 references.) (SK)… [PDF]

Olivas, Michael A. (1990). The Law and Higher Education: Snapshots from Three Decades. Change, v22 n2 p64-69 Mar-Apr. Changes in the world of higher education since the '60s can be captured in several photographs, including the aftermath of the war protest rally at Kent State, James Meredith with the National Guard, Allan Bakke beside a patient's bed, and the Asian student in Beijing who challenged government tanks. (MLW)…

Osigweh, Chimezie A. B. (1988). The Challenge of Responsibilities: Confronting the Revolution in Workplace Rights in Modern Organizations. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, v1 n1 p5-23 Mar. A revolution in workplace rights thinking and practices is occurring. Related factors include professionalization and technocracy, management orthodoxy, and corrupt organizational structures. Because of the correlative link between rights and responsibilities, organizational researchers should be concerned with identifying and describing responsibilities implied by various employer and employee rights. (Author/CH)…

Miller, Alan N.; And Others (1992). The AIDS Epidemic: Business Schools' Response. Journal of Education for Business, v67 n5 p300-05 May-Jun. Reviews and summarizes the literature and reports the results of a survey of 42 business schools regarding what they have done to incorporate information about the nature of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the rights of its victims into the curriculum to prepare managers to deal with it effectively. (JOW)…

Hyland, Terry (1991). Citizenship, Advocacy and Adults with Learning Difficulties. Adults Learning (England), v3 n2 p38-39 Oct. Interest in citizenship rights for adults with learning disabilities is increasing. Britain's National Curriculum Council encourages community service as a way for young adults to develop advocacy skills. (SK)…

Janosik, Steven M.; Sina, Julie A. (1991). The Impact of \Hazelwood\ on the Student Press in Public Higher Education. NASPA Journal, v28 n4 p319-22 Sum. Examines the findings in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeir and discusses their implications for the future of the student press in public higher education. Recommends that the relationship between the institution and the newspaper should be a matter of policy and that the policy and its accompanying procedures or standards should be clarified at the first opportunity. (LLL)…

Cornwell, Nancy; Orbe, Mark P.; Warren, Kiesha (1999). Hate Speech/Free Speech: Using Feminist Perspectives To Foster On-Campus Dialogue. Journal of Intergroup Relations, v26 n1 p3-17 Spr. Explores the complex issues inherent in the tension between hate speech and free speech, focusing on the phenomenon of hate speech on college campuses. Describes the challenges to hate speech made by critical race theorists and explains how a feminist critique can reorient the parameters of hate speech. (SLD)…

Eldred, Janet Carey; Mortensen, Peter (1998). "Persuasion Dwelt on Her Tongue": Female Civic Rhetoric in Early America. College English, v60 n2 p173-88 Feb. Taps research in American studies to learn more about rhetoric and writing instruction in post-Revolutionary America. Merges the separate (and gendered) histories of early 19th-century American rhetoric, breaking down the separate spheres in contemporary historical and literary scholarship. Examines civic rhetoric found in texts that represent women's schooling. (RS)…

Fairclough, Adam (2001). Tuskegee's Robert R. Moton and the Travails of the Early Black College President. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n31 p94-105 Spr. Presidents of historically black colleges were once expected to teach their students that they would advance through industrial education and the benevolent guidance of white foundations funding the schools. Focuses on Tuskegee Institute's Robert Moton, who accommodated to southern segregation but never accepted the racist rationale for Jim Crow and never envisaged segregation as a natural or permanent condition. (SM)…

Clayton-Robinson, Lisa; Sally, Robin (2001). The Freedom School Vision. New Advocate, v14 n3 p285-92 Sum. Presents information based on Freedom School Training Materials and the Freedom School Curriculum. Describes a day in the Freedom Schools. Discusses the Freedom School curriculum noting that it is centered around books with enriching images of Black culture and history. Reproduces the week 1 and week 3 overviews and book lists. (SG)…

Mishra, Jitendra (1995). The ADA Helps–But Not Much. Public Personnel Management, v24 n4 p429-41 Win. The effectiveness of the Americans with Disabilities Act has been limited because its definition of disability is open ended and other terms such as reasonable accommodation are vague. The courts must settle test cases before it will be known if the law is meeting its goal. (SK)…

Bruch, Patrick; Marback, Richard (2002). Race, Literacy, and the Value of Rights Rhetoric in Composition Studies. College Composition and Communication, v53 n4 p651-74 Jun. Takes up Geneva Smitherman's call to renew the fight for language rights by situating the theory of language rights in composition studies in a brief history of rights rhetoric in the United States. Locates the language rights rhetoric of composition studies within larger struggles over the rhetoric of rights in public policy and perception and among critical legal-studies scholars. (SG)…

Teruhisa, Horio (2000). Culture of Peace, Human Rights, and Living Together: The Significance and Prospects of Education in a Global Age Context. Asia Pacific Education Review, v1 n1 p13-22 Dec. Describes development of Global Age from Japanese perspective; discusses peace and human-rights activities of the United Nations Economic and Social Council; describes development of individual character and universal attributes; explains Japanese concept of living together; discusses awareness problems related to Japan's relationship with other Asian countries, especially Korea; describes implications for education. (Contains 20 references.) (PKP)…

Wang, Zhihe (2002). Toward a Postmodern Notion of Human Rights. Educational Philosophy and Theory, v34 n2 p171-183 May. The idea of human rights has increasingly been playing a very important part in people's contemporary life, the political in particular, the cultural in general. This explains why Dr. Griffin in \Beyond Anarchy and Plutocracy: the need for global democracy\ includes a chapter on human rights. \My contention,\ Dr. Griffin writes, \is that now, in the light of globalization, the idea of human rights should inspire a movement for global democracy.\ According to Griffin, global democratic government needs the notion of human rights as at least one of its starting points. In turn, the full implementation of human rights relies on global democratic government. Griffin mentions several obstacles to realizing the idea of human rights. The idea of state sovereignty is regarded as a major obstacle on the way to the full implementation of human rights. According to Griffin, \As long as this doctrine of Sovereignty is retained, therefore, the idea of human rights, with its moral universalism,… [Direct]

Narsee, Sheila (2005). Navigating Unchartered Waters: Peace within Hearts, Hands & Minds. Higher Education Policy, v18 n4 p341-351. This paper is motivated by a need to foster worldwide institutional collaboration and to reconsider conceptualizations of teaching, learning and researching education, encompassing a concern with human rights and a culture of peace. Education is a fundamental element in all processes that aim to build a culture of peace and human rights (UNESCO, 2000). It is more than the provision of information, it is a lifelong, value-based process of improving knowledge and action within the framework of the principles of the international instruments of human rights. My paper is underpinned by the underlying principle of Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence, Satyagraha and Ahimsa. In this paper, I articulate that in the context of deep human crisis in the 21st century, the education of future citizens need to be redressed so that a better balance is achieved between academic excellence and human values and moral perceptions. The making of moral citizens must mean persons with "human… [Direct]

Brown, Rebecca L. (2004). A Commentary: Calming Brown's Critics, Still Queasy After All these Years. Peabody Journal of Education, v79 n2 p33-40 Mar. This essay acknowledges some of the disappointing consequences of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision. It urges, however, that the strategic choices underlying that decision and the principle it articulates are sound and worthy of celebration 50 years later….

Bray, Elmene (2004). Constitutional Values and Human Dignity: Its Value in Education. Perspectives in Education, v22 n3 p1-12 Sep. Human dignity is intrinsic to every human being and is universally recognised as a fundamental right. Under a previous oppressive system, most South Africans had been denied basic human rights, including the right to human dignity. The constitutional negotiations of the 1990s abolished the apartheid system and constituted a sovereign democratic state founded on fundamental values of human dignity, equality and the advancement of human rights and freedoms. The Constitutional Court regards human dignity as one of the core constitutional values and has used dignity to establish a moral basis for the application of other fundamental rights (e.g. equality, security of the person and the right to life), and to create a climate in which the values of the Constitution can permeate through the legal system and into society at large…. [Direct]

Clayton Mosher; Gregory Hooks (2005). Outrages Against Personal Dignity: Rationalizing Abuse and Torture in the War on Terror. Social Forces, v83 n4 p1627-1645 Jun. The outrage over revelations of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison has faded from public discourse, but a number of questions remain unanswered. This paper criticizes official rationalizations offered for the abuse. We make the case that these abuses are systemic, resulting from dehumanization of the enemy and the long reliance on and refinement of torture by the United States national security agencies. We also consider the spread of torture in the current war "on terror," and we call on sociologists to become involved in the study of torture and prisoner abuse….