(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…
(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)…