Gibson, Rich; Pang, Valerie Ooka (2001). Concepts of Democracy and Citizenship: Views of African American Teachers. Social Studies, v92 n6 p260-66 Nov-Dec. Presents the results of a study in which four African American teachers were interviewed. Focuses on what experiences and attitudes they take into their social studies classrooms. Concentrates on the ideas of democracy and citizenship. Emphasizes six themes that were uncovered in the research. Includes references. (CMK)…

Autry, James (1990). People with Disabilities: Free at Last. Exceptional Parent, v20 n7 p22-24 Oct. The father of a boy with autism reports on the events and emotions accompanying the presidential signing of Public Law 101-336, the Americans with Disabilities Act. A chart outlines the law's titles (employment, public service, public accommodations, telecommunications, and miscellaneous provisions); effective dates; regulatory deadlines; and enforcement jurisdiction. (JDD)…

Gordon, Jennifer L. (1989). Out of the Spotlight and into the Shadows. Migration World Magazine, v17 n5 p10-7. Discusses the effects of the employer sanctions provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 on employers and undocumented immigrants. The following steps toward a just policy are considered: (1) repeal of employer sanctions; (2) fair treatment of Central Americans; and (3) recognition of the effect of U.S. foreign policy on immigration. (JS)…

Smith, Arthur A. (1988). Human Subjects and Informed Consent. Research Management Review, v2 n1 p1-4 Spr. The doctrine of informed consent has been enumerated to protect the rights of human subjects involved in biomedical research. The elements of informed consent are summarized along with the changes of emphasis that have evolved. The issue of liability and means for minimizing its impact are discussed. (Author/MLW)…

James, Michael D. (1990). Demystifying Literacy: Reading, Writing, and the Struggle for Liberation. Convergence: An International Journal of Adult Education, v23 n1 p14-26. Literacy by itself cannot change oppressive conditions. It can only be an instrument in the struggle against social, economic, and political oppression. Examples of literacy as a political act may be found in the work of Paulo Freire and in projects that follow the tradition of the Highlander Folk School. (SK)…

Underwood, Julie K. (1989). The Right to Privacy and Unwed Pregnancy. Journal of Law and Education, v18 n4 p537-46 Fall. In response to Professor Sacken, contends that a person's decision to conceive and bear a child is within the constitutionally protected zone of privacy. This would not prohibit a district from dismissing an unwed pregnant teacher, but would require evidence of immorality based on constitutionally acceptable criteria. (MLF)…

Conway, Claire (1989). Death Row Lawyers. Update on Law-Related Education, v13 n1 p35-39,65 Win. Discusses the issue of providing adequate legal representation for persons condemned to death. Asks if the rights of a poor capital defendant charged with a capital crime in the South enjoys fewer rights than one in Los Angeles and whether this creates a dual system of justice. Suggests that state action for improvement may be slow in coming. (KO)…

McCabe, Robert; Tuthill, Catherine (1995). Women and Blacks in College Sports. New England Journal of History, v52 n1 p54-62 Spr. Examines the effects of racism, market forces, and structural changes on the status of women and blacks in college sports. Discusses the formation of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) and its controversial consolidation within the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). (MJP)…

Davila, Robert R. (1994). Technology and Full Participation for Children and Adults Who Are Deaf. American Annals of the Deaf, spec iss v139 p6-9. This article reports on implications of recent legislation and initiatives for the application of assistive technology to meeting the needs of deaf children and adults. A proposal to establish a national center on uses of technology in special education is discussed, as are advances in telecommunications devices for the deaf. (PB)…

Simich-Dudgeon, Carmen (1993). Review of "Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only," by James Crawford. Bilingual Research Journal, v17 n3-4 p163-67 Sum-Fall. Reviews a book that documents the rise of the English-only movement in the 1980s and examines historical and sociocultural factors shaping the movement, potential effects of an official language on constitutional rights of language minorities, anti-immigrant sentiments and America's obstinate monolingualism, and the ongoing battle for equal rights and equal education by Mexican Americans in the Southwest. (SV)…

Conway, Robert N. F. (1992). Disability and Legislation: The Relationship between Changing Policy and Changing Practices. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, v18 n2 p65-73. Australian laws and regulations such as the Disability Services Act reflect the importance of ensuring that persons with disabilities receive appropriate services. A tension exists, however, between policy formulation and service provision, which is influenced by disagreements on government's role in service funding, lobby groups, and the tendency to move disability services into generic services. (JDD)…

Lane, Jane (1993). What Role Has the Law Played in Getting Rid of Racism in the Lives of Children?. Children & Society, v7 n2 p164-82. Attempts to identify the roles of two British laws, the Race Relations Act of 1976 and the Children Act of 1989, in getting rid of racism in children's lives. Britain is the only European country to have comprehensive legislation about racial discrimination, but mere passive acknowledgment has little effect. (SLD)…

(1991). Let Freedom Ring. Instructor, v101 n2 p42-44,46 Sep. Presents ideas from the Center for Research and Development in Law-Related Education for lesson plans to celebrate the Bill of Rights. The article offers projects, resources, and reproducibles that describe the Bill of Rights and how to teach elementary and secondary students about the subject. (SM)…

Norman, Ralph V. (1992). To Be Blind in Granada: Notes on Moral Intelligibility and the Academy. Soundings, v75 n4 p443-64 Win. A discussion of the place of religion in higher education begins with the Vanderbilt University (Tennessee) chapel's history of controversy and looks at the role religious philosophy can play in intellectual and social evolution, drawing on a broad range of world literature. (MSE)…

Pierce, Patricia A. (1991). ADA Self-Evaluation. Journal of Intergroup Relations, v17 n4 p56-62 Win 1990-91. This questionnaire is designed to assist corporations and businesses in evaluating their own policies and procedures in preparation for the Americans with Disabilities Act regulations and their implementation. The questions cover recruitment, job advertising, the application process, the conditions and benefits of employment, and accessibility to transportation, facilities, and telecommunications. (CJS)…

Lehman, Harold D. (1989). Accommodating Religious Needs: The Mennonite and Amish Perspective. Religion & Public Education, v16 n2 p267-77 Spr-Sum. Discusses legal issues concerning the First Amendment rights of Amish and Mennonite students and parents. Focuses on court decisions that upheld their rights of religious liberty and reviews the origins of their beliefs. Contends that most of the government decisions regarding religion and education reflect a fundamental respect for the religious beliefs of minorities. (DB)…

Nelson, Joel I. (1992). Social Welfare and the Market Economy. Social Science Quarterly, v73 n4 p815-28 Dec. Reports on a study that questions whether private enterprise can maintain quality while reducing costs of providing social welfare services. Reviews three aspects of privatization: (1) competitive markets; (2) rationality; and (3) cost reduction. Concludes by questioning a central claim of economic theory: that free markets and private firms are the most effective and efficient mechanisms for producing and distributing all goods and services. (CFR)…

Sandler, Bernice R. (2000). "Too Strong for a Women": The Five Words That Created Title IX. Equity & Excellence in Education, v33 n1 p9-13 Apr. Describes the experiences and reactions of one female doctoral student/part time college teacher who encountered sex discrimination on campus, examining how she participated in a national campaign to end discrimination in education which led ultimately to the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. (SM)…

Wickham, Parnel (2001). Idiocy and the Law in Colonial New England. Mental Retardation, v39 n2 p104-13 Apr. A review of laws and records of the courts of colonial New England indicates early laws of Massachusetts extended certain rights to idiots: they authorized the transfer of property, exonerated idiots who committed capital crimes, and extended relief to impoverished idiots. The relationship between colonial laws and present legislation is examined. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)…

Steinberg, Stephen (1996). "An American Dilemma": The Collapse of the Racial Orthodoxy of Gunnar Myrdal. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n10 p64-70 Win 1995-96. Gunnar Myrdal's "An American Dilemma," revered as a monumental work on race relations, benefited from uncanny historical timing. As it repudiated racism and second-class citizenship, it also stayed within safe political limits for the time. The author never committed to policies that would secure real citizenship for African Americans. (SLD)…

Latham, Patricia H.; Latham, Peter S. (2000). Documenting Adult Learning Disabilities: A Legal Overview. Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, v10 n2 p85-100 Spr. This article reviews the Americans with Disabilities Act and case law to examine who meets the standard of "qualified individual with a disability" and thus cannot be excluded from participation in the services, programs, or activities of higher education institutions. Requirements for disability documentation are addressed. (Contains references.) (CR)…

Bloom, Leslie Rebecca (1998). The Politics of Difference and Multicultural Feminism: Reconceptualizing Education for Democracy. Theory and Research in Social Education, v26 n1 p30-49 Win. Demonstrates how a theoretical framework that includes a politics of difference and multicultural feminism may help reconceptualize democracy in general and education for democracy specifically. Indicates how universality has failed in practice, posits "equivalent rights" instead of "equal rights," and discusses instructional strategies to facilitate education for democracy. (CMK)…

Chilisa, Bagele (2002). National Policies on Pregnancy in Education Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Botswana. Gender and Education, v14 n1 p21-35 Mar. Critiques pregnancy policies in sub-Saharan Africa's education systems, examining expulsion, reentry, and continuation policies for students who become pregnant. Argues that both expulsion policies and reentry policies violate students' rights to education, suggesting that continuation policies provide the most opportunity for gender equity. Notes the close relationship between a country's sociopolitical environment and the type of policy adopted. (SM)…

Williams, Charles F. (2000). At the Supreme Court. Update on Law-Related Education, v23 n2 p24-26 Win 1999-2000. States that in the past juvenile courts afforded children with fewer rights than criminal courts accorded to adults accused of the same crimes. Reviews three U.S. Supreme Court cases that affirmed the constitutional rights of juvenile offenders and changed juvenile court proceedings. Discusses whether the juvenile death penalty violates international law. (CMK)…

Lemann, Nicholas (1999). The Three-Cushion Shot That Won Colin Powell's Support for Affirmative Action in Higher Education. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n26 p102-104 Win 1999-2000. Presents the story of how General Colin Powell was persuaded to make a strong statement in support of affirmative action in higher education rather than supporting the Republican Party's nationwide legislative ban on affirmative action, patterned after Proposition 209 in California. (SM)…

Diniz, Fernando Almeida; Netto, Gina (2001). Researching "Race," Racism and Antiracism: The Development of an Ethical Code. MCT, v20 n1 p15-19 Aut. Black researchers collaborated to establish the Scottish Association of Black Researchers (SABRE) and developed "An Ethical Code for Researching Race, Racism and Anti-Racism in Scotland." Highlights the neglect of this issue by mainstream research, the importance of research on race in Scotland, and fundamental questions about the ideological framework of research. Presents the Code and information about SABRE. (SM)…

Stone, James (2004). The Coming of Age of the Civil War Novel. Social Studies, v95 n1 p40 Jan-Feb. The Civil War novel for children has come of age. Although Civil War novels with little substance remain in print, more recent novels are serious in tone and readily available for classroom use. This article briefly summarizes a few Civil War novels that would be good in the classroom….

Sandmann, Alexa (2004). Literature that Promotes Justice for All: Justice Is Indiscriminately Due to All, without Regard to Numbers, Wealth, or Rank. Social Education, v68 n4 p254 May-Jun. In the afterword of the re-released biography "Farewell to Manzanar," just months after September 11, 2001, the authors of the book comment that these attacks, seen by some as the Pearl Harbor of the twenty-first century, give Farewell to Manzanar a new timeliness. The authors observe that this is a dramatic change, one clearly in the tenor of what it means to be a democratic nation. However, this article asserts early responses to September 11 moved the nation to consider all Arabs a threat, just as the nation did with the Japanese in 1943, means that the nation still has issues of justice to address. The moral imperative of educators is to see all children as precious and recognize that they will inherit a world of baffling complexity. The nation's responsibility is to respect and support the dignity of the individual, the health of the community, and the common good of all. The article concludes that this responsibility demands that students be taught to recognize and…

Anyaso, Hilary Hurd; Commodore, Felecia (2004). 2004: A Year in Review. Black Issues in Higher Education, v21 n23 p40 Dec. The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and, of course, the hotly contested U.S. presidential election were just two of the events that dominated the headlines in 2004. Throughout the year, colleges and universities, as well as other educational institutions across the country, commemorated the Supreme Court's landmark case by convening lectures, conferences and symposiums. This article reflects on the most memorable moments of 2004 in higher education. Lists of significant headliners and milestones for the year are included….

Sabri, Aisha (2004). Realising Rights: Poverty and Adult Literacy in a Globalising Arab Region. Convergence, v37 n3 p75-87. A consideration of the Arab world illustrates the fact that there can be riches and "growth" with slow or stagnating human development and with significant levels of poverty, and that growth might "perhaps" be an engine of human development if there is "good governance." Good governance refers to the existence of means and mechanisms to ensure that a country is moving towards the principles set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and to the demonstrable ability of citizens of any nation to hold accountable those who govern their well-being and control the mechanisms that impact their lives and those of future generations. This article, by considering briefly some aspects of the Arab region, aims to: (1) Confirm that adult illiteracy is one of the conditions characteristic of the state of poverty "and" of the dynamics of exploitation and deepening impoverishment, and that where illiteracy rates are high the potential to move toward… [Direct]