Enslin, Penny (2003). Citizenship Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Cambridge Journal of Education, v33 n1 p73-83 Mar. Describes the approach to citizenship education in recent educational policy in South Africa, and in curriculum developments. Does this against the background of a conceptualization of citizenship based on the participatory vision of the anti-apartheid struggle and on the citizen as presented in the new Constitution. (BT)…

Glazer, Nathan (2003). The Black Faculty Gap. Public Interest, n152 p120-28 Sum. Reviews Cole and Barber's "Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students," which has aroused controversy because its findings bear directly on the University of Michigan's affirmative action cases. Cole and Barber surveyed minority and white students in Ivy League, elite, and historically black colleges, examining occupational choice and its background. The book counters the argument that racial preferences are good for blacks and for higher education. (SM)…

Brake, Deborah (1997). Title Bout for Title IX. Community College Journal, v67 n4 p27-28 Feb-Mar. Discusses a Title IX action brought against Rhode Island's Brown University as a result of the university's demotion of two women's varsity teams to unfunded status. Reports that the court rejected Brown's argument that women are less interested in sports than men, ordering it to comply with the law. (AJL)…

Konur, Ozcan (2002). Access to Nursing Education by Disabled Students: Rights and Duties of Nursing Programs. Nurse Education Today, v22 n5 p364-74 Jul. Discusses provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act in Britain that outline duties of educational institutions not to discriminate against students and applicants with disabilities and to make reasonable accommodations. Urges nursing stakeholders to learn the rules of the game of access to nursing education. (Contains 46 references.) (SK)…

Aikman, Sheila; May, Stephen (2003). Indigenous Education: Addressing Current Issues and Developments. Comparative Education, v39 n2 p139-45 May. Discusses common issues in indigenous education worldwide: indigenous peoples' struggle for control of their education, which is inevitably situated in larger indigenous struggles for self-determination and social justice; revitalization and transmission of indigenous cultures and languages; problems of defining \indigenous;\ and the legitimacy of indigenous knowledge, challenging the hegemonic construction and imposition of western knowledge. (SV)…

Skerry, Peter (1998). The Affirmative Action Paradox. Society, v35 n6 p8-16 Sep-Oct. Asserts that affirmative action is so contentious because it is not a true regime of group rights, discussing: when a group is not a group; black Americans and interest group pluralism; black Americans and corporatism; the prescience of black nationalists; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund; when an organization is not an organization; socially disconnected politics; and programs versus politics. (SM)…

Guess, Jerry M. (1989). An Interview with Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks. Crisis, spec iss p17-19,21 Jan. Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP since 1977, relates the history, achievements, and activities of this organization. A biography of Hooks accompanies the interview. (DM)…

Cohen, David (1990). More Voices in Babel? Educational Research and the Politics of Curriculum. Phi Delta Kappan, v71 n7 p518-22 Mar. Political controversy over curriculum is as old as public education. When early educational researchers tried to "take the schools out of politics," they merely replaced working-class political influence with business and upper-middle-class influence. Nongovernmental and professional influences on U.S. curriculum are as fragmented as public political influences. (MLH)…

Splitt, David A. (1989). Affirmative Action. School Law. Executive Educator, v11 n10 p11 Oct. To pass the Supreme Court's "strict scrutiny" test and be held constitutional, an affirmative action minority-set-aside program must satisfy a two-part test. Remedies must address past records of local discrimination and be aimed only at specific groups victimized by such discrimination. Impacts on schools are assessed. (MLH)…

Fine, Cory R.; And Others (1996). Employee Drug Testing: Are Cities Complying with the Courts?. Public Administration Review, v56 n1 p30-37 Jan-Feb. A national survey of employee drug testing programs revealed that constitutional concerns of protecting employees from unnecessary invasions of privacy, unlawful search and seizure, self-incrimination, and loss of employment were often secondary to the public's perceived need for an efficiently run and safe bureaucracy. (JOW)…

Herr, Stanley S. (1995). A Humanist's Legacy: Burton Blatt and the Origins of the Disability Rights Movement. Mental Retardation, v33 n5 p328-31 Oct. This article recounts the words and deeds of Burton Blatt, a writer, educator, and exposer of abuses of human rights in institutions housing people with mental retardation. His life is seen as an inspiration for those now providing moral leadership in the continuing fight against indifference to human rights abuses and social darwinism. (DB)…

DeChicchis, Joseph (1995). The Current State of the Ainu Language. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v16 n1-2 p103-24. Discusses the minority Ainu people and language of northern Japan, focusing on the current locus of Ainu speakers and ethnic Ainu, the former extent of Ainu speech communities, publications on and in Ainu, and recent actions by the Ainu people to assert their linguistic and political rights in Japan. (168 references) (MDM)…

Dempsey, Scott B.; Vandell, Kathy (1993). Creating a Gender-Fair Federal Education Policy. AAUW Outlook, v87 n1 p17-20 Spr. Reviews federal educational policy on gender equity in terms of provisions and actual practice. Outlines the American Association of University Women's proposed changes to improve equity in elementary and secondary education. (SK)…

Viezzer, Moema (1992). Learning for Environmental Action. Convergence, v25 n2 p3-8. Roles for adult education in environmental action include (1) using environmental issues as topics in literacy classes; (2) incorporating environmental action in education for peace and human rights; and (3) forming new social gender relationships through the leadership of women in the environmental movement. (SK)…

Cloonan, Jeanne Denise; Strine, James Michael (1991). Federalism and the Development of Language Policy: Preliminary Investigations. Language Problems and Language Planning, v15 n3 p268-81 Fall. Examines the move toward federal constitutional rights for minority language populations and the trade-off considerations of implementing such a move. It is argued that minority language populations benefit from maintenance of decentralized language policies and that state bureaucratic agencies are more protective of language minority rights than federal legislation would be. (14 references) (GLR)…

Blommaert, Jan; Verschueren, Jef (1991). The Pragmatics of Minority Politics in Belgium. Language in Society, v20 n4 p503-31 Dec. An analysis of newspaper reports, political policy papers and social science investigations, uncovers a coherent world of beliefs concerning minority-majority relations. These beliefs, centered around stable but vague notions of culture, nation, state, democracy, and human rights, reveal a society profoundly troubled by the idea of diversity, instead fostering a strict norm of homogeneity. (23 references) (JL)…

Molnar, Alex (1993). Facing the Racial Divide. Educational Leadership, v50 n8 p58-59 May. Whatever its causes, racial isolation is social dynamite. Problems and destiny of America and American education cannot be separated from fate of American cities, which daily grow poorer, more violent, less socially cohesive, and more isolated. Problems cannot be addressed without taking racism into account. Schools can help students understand racism problems and value of minority strengths and contributions. (MLH)…

Yamaguchi, Makoto (1993). Deepening Democracy in Japan: Adult Education. Convergence, v26 n1 p16-22. Adult education can play a role in alleviating sex, social, and racial discrimination in Japanese society by preparing citizens for participation and paying attention to the needs of special groups: women, Baraku people, dropouts, people with disabilities, the Ainu (indigenous Caucasians), Koreans living in Japan, and refugees. (SK)…

Murdick, Nikki L.; Parette, Howard P., Jr. (1994). Physical Access and Programs Serving Young Children with Disabilities. Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, v4 n2 p51-64 Jun. Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requires child care centers to examine access to their rooms and spaces, playgrounds, and activities. The main components which require review are attitudinal barriers, physical barriers, policy barriers, and procedural barriers. (Author/JDD)…

Nipkow, Karl Ernst (1996). Der Padagogische Umgang mit dem weltanschaulich-religiosen Pluralismus auf dem Prufstein (A Touchstone for the Pedagogical Approach to Ideological-Religious Pluralism). Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, v42 n1 p57-70 Jan-Feb. Examines the model for ethical-religious instruction introduced in Brandenburg (Germany) from a constitutional and structural-pedagogical viewpoint. Points to problems with both the proposed "uniform" and "plural" models: the first infringes on minorities' interests and the second presupposes a high degree of cooperation between churches and state to be efficient. (DSK)…

Casella, Ronnie (1999). What Are We Doing When We are "Doing" Cultural Studies in Education–and Why?. Educational Theory, v49 n1 p107-23 Win. Argues that the only way creative and intellectual work in cultural studies of education can matter is if practitioners reconnect with cultural studies' activist work, noting historical moments, major texts, theoretical orientations, and research methodologies that allow educational researchers to take seriously social inequalities and their responsibility to enact social change. An intellectual popularism to address related concerns is recommended. (SM)…

Sharlet, Jeff (2000). Taking Black Studies Back to the Streets. Chronicle of Higher Education, v46 n37 pA18-20 May 19,. Discussion of current trends in Black Studies scholarship finds continuity in the activist tradition of emphasizing description, correction, and prescription, as well as increasing emphasis on building coalitions, economics, race, and gender. Focuses on collaboration of scholars and community activists as evidenced in the Black Radical Congress. Notes leadership of Harvard University (Massachusetts). (DB)…

Andrews, Ian (1999). Quebec Nationalism. Puzzle Corner. Canadian Social Studies, v33 n4 p126-27 Sum. Addresses the movement called civic nationalism in Quebec Province (Canada) that allows all people regardless of ethnic heritage to participate fully in the secular and governmental life of Canada. Provides a puzzle that focuses on the people uniting against civic nationalism. Included the clues and word list. (CMK)…

Simon, Jo Anne (2001). Legal Issues in Serving Postsecondary Students with Disabilities. Topics in Language Disorders, v21 n2 p1-16 Feb. This article compares students' rights under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. General responsibilities of postsecondary institutions are discussed, including access to postsecondary education, reasonable accommodations, documentation, access to print/alternate text, access to computer technology, and interpreters. (Contains references.) (CR)…

Balkin, Jack M. (2002). Would African Americans Have Been Better Off without Brown v. Board of Education?. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n35 p102-104 Spr. Discusses the opinion held by some Blacks and many Whites that Supreme Court enforcement of the separate but equal rule of Plessy v. Ferguson would have produced better educational opportunities for blacks than one of forced racial integration. Suggests that this theory is incorrect, particularly in regard to African Americans in northern states. (SM)…

Grossman, Paul D. (2001). Making Accommodations: The Legal World of Students with Disabilities. Academe, v87 n6 p41-46 Nov-Dec. Describes the legal requirements with which institutions of higher education must comply regarding students with disabilities. Addresses the topics of equal access, degree of deference toward institutions' accommodations decisions, documentation, types of accommodation, and benefits to the academic community from inclusion of people with disabilities. (EV)…

Del Valle, Sandra (1998). Bilingual Education for Puerto Ricans in New York City: From Hope to Compromise. Harvard Educational Review, v68 n2 p193-217 Sum. Although policymakers, courts, and advocacy groups have raised awareness of bilingual education, there is a gap between the remedial model and grassroots community views of bilingual education as enrichment. Support for bilingual education must be recontextualized as a strategy for education reform with leadership from language-minority persons. (SK)…

Peters, Michael A. (2003). Derrida, Pedagogy and the Calculation of the Subject. Educational Philosophy and Theory, v35 n3 p313-332 Jul. Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut argue that \the philosophy of 68\ eliminates and leaves no room for a positive rehabilitation of human agency necessary for a workable notion of democracy. In their Preface to the English Translation of \La pensee 68,\ Ferry and Renaut (1990a, p. xvi), refer to the philosophy of the sixties as a \Nietzschean-Heideggerian\ antihumanism which is structurally incapable of taking up the promises of the democratic project inherent in modernity. Their criticisms are specifically aimed at Derrida and are intended as a path back to a form of humanism, liberalism and individualism (the doctrine of human rights) which they think can sustain a notion of political agency required for democracy. Derrida provides resources for understanding and responding to these criticisms. He denies a simple-minded nihilism as it applies to the subject, to notions of political agency and to the Idea of democracy and he argues that the anti-Nietzschean polemical attack on the critique… [Direct]

Zirkel, Perry A. (2004). Courtside: Private Effects?. Phi Delta Kappan, v86 n3 p254-255 Nov. After being accused of sexually harassing a student, a high school math teacher in New York was suspended with pay pending an impartial hearing. The district allowed the teacher to return to his classroom to collect his personal effects, which he had kept in boxes, desk drawers, and three filing cabinets, one of which was locked. He did not succeed in removing all of his belongings and later claimed that the district did not return all of them to him. The teacher filed suit in federal court, claiming that the district and its administrators had violated his Fourth Amendment rights in the search and seizure of his personal items in the classroom. An examination of this case finds that the Fourth Amendment offers only limited privacy protection to what many educators mistakenly consider their own workspace….

Jenkins, Karen (2004). Becoming a Citizen of the World. Black Issues in Higher Education, v21 n19 p114 Nov. W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the leading intellectuals of the 20th century, was unwavering in his commitment to the equality of the colored peoples of the world. All intellectual giant and a life-long agitator, Du Bois devoted his life to ensuring that the majority of the people in the world, \those of color,\ would break the shackles of colonialism and racial discrimination. It was in 1900 during the first meeting of the Pan-African Congress in London that Du Bois made his famous statement, \The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line–the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia, Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.\…