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