(1970). The Sexual Barrier; Legal and Economic Aspects of Employment. This bibliography covers the laws and conditions governing the employment of women. Included are books, articles, pamphlets, and government publications dating from 1959. Topics covered include: (1) Legal Aspects, (2) Discrimination in Employment, (3) Difference in Pay, (4) Professional Opportunities, and (5) General. Two supplements are available as VT 016 161-016 162 in this issue. (BH)… [PDF]
(1975). Revenue Sharing and the Black Community. Urban League Review, 1, 2, 46-54, F 75. Concludes that the Revenue Sharing Bill gives rise to a very complicated set of non priorities which could undercut poor and working class blacks in every major city. (Author/AM)…
(1978). Dissent in the Bakke Case. Freedomways, v18 n3 p127-35 1978, 78. While the author applauds the judgment of the Supreme Court that a university may consider race in its admissions process, he considers it ironic that, after several hundred years of class-based discrimination against Blacks, the Court is unwilling to hold that a class-based remedy for that discrimination is permissible. (Author/KR)…
(1978). Academic Freedom in the Schools. Journal of General Education, 29, 4, 299-310, W 78. Reviews major court decisions on cases involving instructors' rights to teach controversial issues, to choose their teaching style, and to affect the curriculum in such ways as deciding to assign creationist or evolutionary biology textbooks. (Editor/RK)…
(1978). Rights Vs. Rules. College Press Review, 17, 3, 12-3, Spr 78. Discusses court cases involving freedom of the college student press and suggests that student newspaper staffs meet with administrators to agree on editorial policy. (GW)…
(1978). Women in the United States, 1976. Black Scholar, 9, 8-9, 29-34, May-Jun 78. While the status of women has improved, women have not yet been elevated to a position of equality with men. (Author/AM)…
(1978). School Desegregation and the Black Community. Theory Into Practice, 17, 2, 122-30, Apr 78. Solutions to the educational problems of the black community will ultimately require the mobilization of the political strength of the black community on a number of fronts (employment, culture, technology, international relations), and the exercise of effective black decision making authority within each of them. (JD)…
(1978). Human Rights Legislation and the Employment of Teachers. Education Canada, 18, 2, 44-7, Sum 78. Looks at teacher employment procedures to see what might be termed discriminatory. (Editor)…
(1978). Bakke Wins, Quotas Lose. Time, 112, 2, 8-16, Jul 10 78. Ruling 5 to 4, the Supreme Court finds a middle ground in the sensitive Bakke case. It gives something to everybody, outlawing strict racial quotas but permitting race to be considered in college admissions policies. (Editor)…
(1978). Cultural Identity. Social Education, 42, 2, 162,4, Feb 78. Reasons for encouraging multicultural education in the public schools include building positive self concept among minority students and cultural awareness for all students. Supports the multicultural education argument with evidence relating to American Indian cultural heritage. (Author/DB)…
(1978). Back to the Starting Line: Title IX and Women's Intercollegiate Athletics. American Behavioral Scientist, 21, 3, 379-92, Jan/Feb 78. Focuses on demands by women for greater resources and choices in intercollegiate athletics as a response to Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972. Concludes that, although some positive changes have resulted from poltical intervention and social change, full equality in intercollegiate athletics is unlikley in the near future. (Author/DB)…
(1976). Dimensions of Verbal Racial Attitudes: Interracial Marriages and Approaches to Racial Equality. Journal of Social Issues, 32, 2, 9-22, Spr 76. The study reported here applies an empirical approach to the analysis of the components of whites' racial attitudes. It was designed to see whether items addressing two approaches to achieving racial equality–changing the community versus improving the black–would cluster separately or whether they would cluster with items of similar type concerning other topics. (Author/JM)…
(1978). Crisis in Affirmative Action: Bakke v. the Regents of the University of California. Journal of Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance, 6, 3, 119-24, Apr 78. Provides a discussion of the negative impact of the Bakke case on affirmative action. Includes ideas about legislative strategies to vindicate special-admissions and categorical-aid programs. Presented at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D. C., March, 1977. (DOW)…
(1978). School Counselors and PL 94-142. School Counselor, 25, 3, 192-5, Jan 78. Discusses the specifics of PL 94-142 (which guarantees the right of all children, regardless of severity of handicap, to a free, public education) implications for counselors and problems regarding implementation. (Author/HMV)…
(1976). The Enforcement of Title VII: Meshing Public and Private Efforts. Northwestern University Law Review, 71, 4, 480-535, Sep-Oct 76. Difficulties exist in reconciling various schemes of relief under Title VII to achieve efficient resource allocation and to avoid conflicting determinations. Focus is on how public and private enforcement efforts can be harmonized to avoid conflict between plaintifss and minimize the burdens on defendants. Available from: Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Ill. 60611. (LBH)…