(1988). Recent Textbook Cases and Children's Rights. Religion and Public Education, v15 n3 p286-92 Sum. Questions the failure to address children's rights in recent court decisions regarding educational issues. States that at some point prior to adulthood children achieve the emotional maturity to evaluate ideas, actions, and values, and therefore, should be allowed to exercise free choice. Response by Ronald B. Flowers follows. (LS)…
(1994). A Legal History of Desegregation in Higher Education. Journal of Negro Education, v63 n3 p406-20 Sum. Presents an in-depth review of desegregation efforts waged in the nation's courts, along with insights into the overall effectiveness of the courts' rulings in this area. It discusses concepts of academic freedom at the postsecondary level and their influence on higher education desegregation efforts. The authors provide a partial explanation for the judiciary's failure to desegregate higher education. (GR)…
(1995). Discrimination in Australian TAFE and Higher Education: The Anecdotal Evidence of Contested Matters. Educational Management & Administration, v23 n2 p114-21 Apr. Provides anecdotal evidence of discrimination in Australian technical and further education (TAFE) and higher education, focusing on recent court litigation involving employment and provision of educational services. Unless appropriate antidiscrimination policies and practices are developed and implemented by TAFE and higher education institutions, discriminatory activities are bound to occur. (45 endnotes) (MLH)…
(1995). Affirmative Action and the Rumor of Black Inferiority. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n8 p64-65 Sum. Challenges the view that, in a meritocratic society, affirmative action in higher education does personal and professional harm to those whom it ostensibly benefits. The author contends that, in most cases, those who are granted preferences are neither professionally diminished nor hurt by personal or societal feelings that they are unqualified or that their benefits are undeserved. (GR)…
(1993). Sexual Harassment in the Schools. Students Are Taking Legal Action, and Administrators Are Having to Confront Ugly Facts. Vocational Education Journal, v68 n3 p28-31 Mar. Educators and administrators must face their responsibility in dealing with sexual harassment by developing policies that are intended to ensure a safe environment, specifying procedures for reporting incidents, and making the reporting process unthreatening. (SK)…
(1993). Individual Rights versus Institutional Responsibilities. EDUCOM Review, v28 n3 p41-44 May-Jun. Discusses individual rights versus institutional responsibilities as addressed in the Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for Electronic Learners. Topics addressed include freedom of speech and First Amendment rights; freedom of the press; freedom of assembly; right to privacy; freedom from unreasonable searches; due process; and future issues. (three references) (LRW)…
(1992). Back to Basic Values: Education for Justice and Peace in the World. Journal of Moral Education, v21 n3 p185-92. Contends that public education has basic, secular texts that include basic human rights common to all the world's peoples. Identifies the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 as the first of these documents. Argues that schools in all nations should emphasize equality of rights and equality of dignity. (CFR)…
(1992). Evolution and Creationism in the Public School Curriculum: The Academic Freedom Issue. Religion & Public Education, v19 n1 p57-66 Win. Reviews the controversy of teaching evolution and creationism in public schools from the early years of the twentieth century until today. Identifies two stages of the legal challenges to the teaching of evolution. Contends that academic freedom issues may provide another avenue to the Supreme Court for those supporting creationism. (CFR)…
(1990). The Grove City College Case: A Relatively Short-Lived Aberration in American Higher Education. Higher Education Management, v2 n2 p147-55 Jul. The article reviews the 1984 Grove City College v Bell case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prohibition of sex discrimination in federally supported educational activities, applied only to programs receiving aid and not to the entire institution. Trends leading to congressional overturn of the Grove City decision in 1988 are noted. (Author/MLW)…
(1990). Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children and Adults with Mental Retardation and Other Handicaps. Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, v14 n3 p301-12. Issues in the sexual abuse and exploitation of individuals with mental retardation are discussed, including sociolegal considerations of special protection from abuse and neglect, incidence of sexual abuse, increased vulnerability of individuals with mental retardation, nature of the abuse, initial and long-term effects, professional response, and therapeutic interventions. (JDD)…
(1998). Reprint: Cultural Action for Freedom. Harvard Educational Review, v68 n4 p471-521 Win. Reprints of two Harvard Educational Review articles from 1970, "The Adult Literacy Process in Cultural Action for Freedom" and "Cultural Action and Conscientization," highlight the importance of education to human rights. (SK)…
(2001). At Second Glance: Employers and Employees with Learning Disabilities in the Americans with Disabilities Act Era. Journal of Learning Disabilities, v34 n3 p202-10,48 May-Jun. Previous findings on employer knowledge about learning disabilities were compared to 25 employers from Pennsylvania and Virginia. Findings indicate that employers are continuing to make efforts to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 regulations but have little knowledge or experience with it in terms of learning disabilities. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)…
(1996). Whose Affirmative Action?. Society, v33 n3 p41-43 Mar-Apr. Presents a brief historical summary of affirmative action, examines its practices, and explores its future prospects. The article argues that the way out of the racial isolation brought about by the success of middle-class racial integration is to practice affirmative action on the basis of class rather than race, that is, equality of opportunity. (GR)…
(2001). Can We Legislate Beliefs?. Education Canada, v41 n3 p36-37 Fall. Trinity Western University (TWU) (British Columbia) was denied accreditation as a teacher training institution because the accrediting college felt that TWU–a Christian institution excluding persons based on sexual orientation–would produce teachers that discriminated against homosexual students. In subsequent court litigation, the Supreme Court upheld religious freedoms, stating that religious beliefs would not necessarily lead to discriminatory conduct. (SV)…
(2000). Epilogue. Affirmative Action: Another Instance of Racial Workings in the United States. Journal of Negro Education, v69 n1-2 p145-49 Win-Spr. Discusses the effect of recent legal and legislative setbacks in the affirmative action arena, looking at the history of legislation that protects white rights over black rights (and that makes whites the protected minority) and emphasizing the need to respond to the types of injustices that affirmative action was designed to address. (SM)…