(1976). Great Issues in American History: A Compilation of Primary Sources Related to Issues That Have Occupied the Attention of the American People from Colonial Days to the Present. Oregon ASCD Curriculum Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 333. This publication is a compilation of primary source materials related to issues that have occupied the attention of the American people from colonial days to the present. It is intended for use at the secondary level. A prologue contains creation stories and poems on the origins of the world and man. Documentation of the primary sources is provided. Five chapters treat specific time periods in U.S. history. The time periods covered include the European Colonization of North America, 1492-1700; Founding the New Nation, 1770-1800; Establishing the New Nation, 1800-1865; Reconstruction, Industrialism, and Imperialism, 1865-1912; and International Involvement, Social Change, and Liberation, 1912-1976. Each chapter presents a brief introduction, identifies five or six issues, and concludes with a bibliography of the sources of the primary materials. A general reading list concludes the publication. (Author/RM)… [PDF]
(1995). The Lesson Plan of the Month. Series 3. 10 Lesson Series. Focusing on current topics germane to law-related education (LRE), this guide features ten LRE lessons. As part of a series of lesson plans compiled by Phi Alpha Delta, this collection presents a lesson plan on current issues for each month of the school year. Intended for high school and middle school with adaptations for elementary school, the individual lessons focus on school violence, school prayer, gun control, stalking, media influences, balancing the budget, the meaning of character, nuclear proliferation, immigration, and the penal system. Each lesson plan provides a lesson description, objectives, key concepts and vocabulary, detailed steps for implementing the lesson, questions for class discussion, and suggestions for additional activities. The lessons also include handouts and other relevant teaching materials. (TSV)…
(1997). The Employment Context. The Impact of the Law on the Lives of Women. Gender and American Law Series, No. 3. This book contains the following 14 articles on the effects of law on women in the United States: \Protection of Women Workers and the Courts: A Legal Case History\ (Ann Corinne Hill); \Sexual Harassment and Race: A Legal Analysis of Discrimination\ (Judy Trent Ellis); \Comparable Worth: Is This a Theory for Black Workers?\ (Judy Scales-Trent); \Sexual Harassment: Its First Decade in Court\ (Catharine A. MacKinnon); \Comparable Worth: The Paradox of Technocratic Reform\ (Sara M. Evans, Barbara J. Nelson); \Conceptualizing Black Women's Employment Experiences\ (Cathy Scarborough); \Pluralist Myths and Powerless Men: The Ideology of Reasonableness in Sexual Harassment Law\ (Nancy S. Ehrenreich); \Sexist Speech in the Workplace\ (Marcy Strauss); \Women in the Workplace and Sex Discrimination Law: A Feminist Analysis of Federal Jurisprudence\ (Francis Carleton); \Sexual Harassment in the Military\ (Yxta Maya Murray); \Gender Bias in the Legal Profession: Women 'See' It, Men Don't\…
(1996). The 1944 Nisei Draft at Heart Mountain, Wyoming: Its Relationship to the Historical Representation of the World War II Japanese American Evacuation. OAH Magazine of History, v10 n4 p48-60 Sum. Presents a lesson plan that not only illuminates a little-known incident in Asian American history but also questions how history is constructed and communicated. Provides an excellent historical account of the draft resistance movement within the Nisei internment camps during World War II. Includes handouts and discussion questions. (MJP)…
(1994). Challenges to Popular and Human Rights Education: The Formation of Producer, Citizen, and Person. Journal of Moral Education, v23 n3 p305-14. Contends that popular, or a form of alternative, education stands in the background of most efforts in human rights education in Latin America. Maintains that education must educate people as producers, citizens, and individuals. Discusses challenges to this task in light of liberation theology and the Peruvian experience. (CFR)…
(1994). Comparative Legal Services: An Analysis of the Delivery of Legal Services to the Poor in Nations around the World. Update on Law-Related Education, v18 n3 p47-51 Fall. Asserts that providing poor people equal access to law is a worldwide problem. Identifies and discusses three systems of legal aid services in nations throughout the world. Includes a vocabulary chart and a special section on justice in South Africa. (CFR)…
(1998). Lessons on Judicial Interpretation: How Immigrants Takao Ozawa and Yick Wo Searched the Courts for a Place in America. OAH Magazine of History, v13 n1 p41-49 Fall. Presents two lessons designed to counter textbook images of minorities merely as victims, by introducing high school students to two federal court cases involving Asian immigrants' efforts to guarantee their rights. Includes lesson objectives, background on lesson organization, procedural outline, primary documents necessary for each lesson, and discussion questions. (DSK)…
(2006). Capital Construction Budget Recommendations and Prioritization, 2007-2009 Biennium for the Nebraska State College System, University of Nebraska, and Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture. Revision. Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education The Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education recognizes the importance of safe, functional, well-utilized, and well-maintained facilities in supporting institutional efforts to provide exemplary programs. This principle forms the basis for the Commission's capital construction budget recommendations and prioritization for the 2007-2009 biennium. A high proportion of the physical assets supported by state government are found on the campuses of public higher education institutions throughout Nebraska. To protect this considerable investment (about $2.1 billion for state-supported facilities), it is critical that institutions properly plan for the construction, efficient use, and maintenance of these facilities. The Commission has identified ongoing routine maintenance and deferred maintenance as two essential areas in which state and institutional funding are needed during the next biennium. Adequate funding in these areas would provide long-term cost savings that can be… [PDF]
(2006). Gay and Lesbian Youth Research: An East Asian Perspective. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, v3 n2-3 p119-120. As globalization proceeded, the rights of sexual minority groups have become one of the human rights that cannot be ignored. However, recognizing sexuality as a human right and promoting educational practices which affect human rights policies, have been implemented mainly in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. For example, the establishment of Gay and Straight Alliances is uncommon in East Asia. What about research on LGBT youth and implementation of sexuality education in East Asian countries? D'Augelli and Grossman describe the current limitations on doing research on queer youth–even in countries where there has been a relatively long history of such work. The authors' point that educators must work to reduce the stigma of sexual orientation, paying greater attention to gender identity, is as important as the need for more types of research into their lives. People certainly need to do a better job thinking about their methodologies as they engage in this… [Direct]
(2006). The Language Situation in Mexico. Current Issues in Language Planning, v7 n4 p415-518 Nov. This monograph will cover the language situation in Mexico; a linguistically very complex country with 62 recognised indigenous languages, the "de facto" official language, Spanish, and some immigrant languages of lesser importance. Throughout the monograph, we will concentrate on three distinct challenges which we consider relevant for Mexican language policy. The first area of interest is the challenge of the multilingual situation where there is conflict between Spanish and the indigenous languages, most of which are in danger of shift. This situation has many consequences both for education and for linguistic human rights. The second challenge that is discussed is that of foreign language teaching, which is a growing need in the Mexican education system, just as it is for any economically developing nation. In particular, English is in high demand at all levels of education; in turn, this development creates new demands for teaching staff. The third challenge dealt with… [Direct]
(2006). Modernization of Indonesian Islamic Schools' Curricula, 1945-2003. International Journal of Inclusive Education, v10 n4-5 p415-427 Jul. As the most populous Muslim country in the world, Indonesia has a unique experience in dealing with Islamic education, a system that was established years before the country's independence. This paper summarizes the development of Indonesian Islamic schools with special reference to their changing curricula. Using the social constructionist perspective as an approach, this research is trying to see the significance of political and social changes to the development of Islamic schools' curricula throughout the country's history. (Contains 2 notes.)… [Direct]
(2006). Educating Students about the Holocaust: A Survey of Teaching Practices. Social Education, v70 n1 p51-54 Jan-Feb. More than half a century has passed since the horrific events of the Holocaust took place, but images of the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany are no less shocking than they were 60 years ago. Any discussion of the Holocaust inevitably leads to questions not only of how and why this event occurred in the modern era but, more importantly, how the legacy of the Holocaust can continue to raise international awareness of human rights abuses and genocide. One way of achieving this awareness is by providing holocaust education to the nation's young people. While this objective has obtained widespread support, there has been an absence of reliable nationwide information on how the Holocaust is actually taught in U.S. schools. This article attempts to fill that gap by presenting the results of a yearlong study commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum of teaching practices in Holocaust education in the nation's… [Direct]
(1996). Student Affairs Staff Survey of Knowledge of Disability Laws and Recent Legal Decisions. Postsecondary Accommodations for Academic and Career Success. This document presents survey questions concerning rights of students with disabilities in postsecondary education and the responsibilities and rights of student affairs staff. The survey is intended to provide necessary information about disability laws and recent legal decisions in the context of the increased enrollment of students with disabilities in higher education and the increasing need for accommodations. The 26-item survey identifies the correct responses (from yes/no choices), offers a rationale for the correct response, and provides one or more references. The survey addresses: Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, suitable accommodations, limitations on required accommodations, liability of the individual student affairs staff member, access to student diagnostic information, admissions tests, safety considerations, student housing, preferred terminology, and accommodations for individuals with specific impairments…. [PDF]
(2005). Standards of Good Practice in the Employment of Full-Time Nontenure-Track Faculty. Item Number 36-0710. American Federation of Teachers In conjunction with efforts to make more widely known the trend towards decomposition of the tenure system in American colleges and universities, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has examined conditions of full-time nontenure track faculty, part-time/adjunct faculty, graduate employees and new categories of academic professional staff specialists. While acknowledging the need to scrutinize rising costs in light of rising tuition and tight budgets, AFT advocates that students are being subjected to overly large classes taught by underpaid, overworked and under-supported academic workers. In this document, AFT proposes standards of good practice in the employment of full-time nontenure-track faculty in four areas: (1) Compensation; (2) Professional Conditions and Voice; (3) Professional Responsibility and Support; and (4) Ensuring Full Rights for Full-Time Nontenure-Tack Faculty in their Union. (Contains 10 endnotes and 7 figures.) [This document was produced by AFT Higher… [PDF]
(2001). Campus Safety and the Deaf Community Working Together. PEPNet Tipsheet. PEPNet-Northeast If a campus has students who are deaf or hard of hearing, its Public Safety department needs to become aware of some basic information about deafness in order to serve those students well. Public Safety officers may interact with deaf students in a variety of situations: (1) Reporting a theft; (2) Emergency medical situations; (3) Reporting items lost or found; (4) Parking violations; and (5) Requests for services. This tipsheet provides some basic information about deafness and deaf culture. It is important to know that there is a difference in the degrees of deafness that people may have…. [PDF]