(1974). Integrity Before Education. Integrated Education, 12, 3, 22-28, May-Jun 74. Disputes the belief that there is some way to motivate people who are culturally different to become like whites: if Indian legal rights are protected only to the extent that the Indians conform to white society, then one is not talking about legal rights at all. (Author/JM)…
(1977). The Parents' Handbook: A Guide for Parents of Children in Foster Care. This guide for parents whose children have been placed in foster care explains the foster care process and offers advice on the parent's role, rights, and responsibilities. Section headings are: What Is Foster Care?; How Does My Child Come into Foster Care?; How Should I Work With My Agency Caseworker?; How Do I Plan for My Child's Future?; What Are My Parental Rights and Responsibilities?; What Can I Do if I Have a Complaint?; How Can I Get a Lawyer?; and What Court Actions Can Take Place Concerning Me and My Child? A \Request for discharge of child from foster care\ form and legal service telephone numbers for New York City are included. (SB)…
(1977). Students and the Law. This publication consists of 29 articles that were published between April 1974 and June 1977 in the \Students and the Law\ column of the National Association of Secondary School Principals' magazine, the \Student Advocate.\ In editing the articles, an attempt has been made to eliminate or update any suggestions or conclusions that may have been inaccurate because of changes in the law. Titles of the articles include: \Student Rights and Responsibilities,\\Due Process,\\Rights to Privacy,\\Suspension and Due Process,\\Students' Constitutional Rights,\\Expulsion and Suspension,\\Do Students Have Rights?\\Students in Double Jeopardy,\\Student Records,\\Smoking in the Public Schools,\\Student Responsibilities,\\Freedom of Speech,\\Hair and Dress Codes,\\Student Marriage and Pregnancy,\\Patriotic Observances,\\Compulsory School Attendance,\\Sex Ed Controversy,\\Title IX–Ending Sex Discrimination,\\Brown Bagging with Federal Funds,\\Use of School Funds,\\Student Council…
(1977). Legal Liability of Individual School Board Members. The speaker examines the issue of the legal liability of individual school board members as it has arisen as a result of such court cases as Wood v. Strickland and Goss v. Lopez. The discussion includes questions of infringement on students' and teachers' rights and cases of school officials acting as individuals rather than in an official capacity. (IRT)… [PDF]
(1975). Implications of the Weinstein Decision. Integrated Education, 13, 3, 143-146, May-Jun 75. This testimony, by the General Counsel for the National Association Advancement Colored People before the May 1974 public hearings of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, discusses the case entitled "Jeffrey Hart et al Vs The Community School Board of Brooklyn, District 21", which has come to be known as both the Weinstein case and the Coney Island case. (Author/JM)…
(1975). Children's Rights and the School Counselor. Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 9, 4, 279-286, May 75. The author presents the case for the rights of children. He also demonstrates how schools can guarantee more democratic treatment for children by recognizing children's rights and gives his views on the counselor's role as child advocate. (Author/HMV)…
(1969). Education, Society, and Government. Yearbook Sch Law 1969, 1-13, 69. Chapter 1…
(1981). Minorities and Mathematics. A Ford Foundation Staff Paper No. 415. This report opens with a bleak picture of the kind of mathematics now taught within American classrooms. The situation for minority students is viewed as particularly grim. The Ford Foundation has launched a major national effort to improve minority students' performance in mathematics and to help mathematics teachers improve the quality of their instruction. The Foundation expects that the lessons learned and the techniques developed will help advance learning in science and mathematics for all students. Nine grants made recently as part of the Foundation's initiative into this area are profiled in the remainder of the document. (MP)…
(1982). Advocates and Administrators: Perspectives on the Title IX Coordinator's Role. The role perceptions and activities of seven individuals responsible for coordination of the efforts of their respective districts to comply with the requirements of Title IX of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act are described in this research report. All seven districts involved in the study complied at least with the letter of the law. Six went beyond compliance on paper to compliance in fact, and four beyond formal compliance to positive action embodying the spirit of equality. Researchers found that conditions identified by previous studies as necessary to successful fulfillment of the role of Title IX coordinator were not in fact present in all cases where coordinators proved effective. In each instance it was the particular interrelationship of district and coordinator characteristics, rather than the specific characteristics themselves, that appeared vital to coordinator effectiveness. (Author/PGD)…
(1981). The Importance of Early Suffrage Papers in Constructing a Community. An analysis of five mid-nineteenth century women's suffrage periodicals (\The Lily,\\The Genius of Liberty,\\The Una,\\The Revolution,\ and \The Woman's Journal\) suggests that the papers succeeded in creating, sustaining, and inspiring the suffrage community as it developed and matured, and in dramatizing and debating alternative versions of a new life style for women. In 1893, the 13,000 members enrolled in the official suffrage organization had few opportunities for face-to-face interaction and communication and saw themselves as poorly (negatively and infrequently) reported in the popular press. Thus it was through and with their own papers that the suffragists came together as a community. (AEA)… [PDF]
(1977). Student Unrest in India. A Select Bibliography. Responding to the problem of student unrest in India, this bibliography offers 1,415 articles from periodicals and books examining the nature, causes, and remedies of student unrest. A brief survey of the historical background of student involvement in Indian society traces the student movement from its earlier purpose to help the Indian National Movement in preindependence days to its degeneration into a movement merely concerned with local issues in the post-independence period. A review of the literature reveals several causes of unrest such as too much leisure time, lack of facilities for representation of complaints, lack of proper academic atmosphere, political interference, growth of economic difficulties, and a general loss of idealism. The available data on the problem of student unrest suggests two general trends of thinking: (1) students as a class are nonconformists; and (2) the economic, political, social, cultural and psychological problems created by educational…
(1978). The President's Commission on Mental Health. Report to the President. Volume 1. The mental health needs and services available in the United States were investigated by the President's Commission on Mental Health. Results indicated that: (1) mental health services are primarily located in urban areas; (2) the needs of racial and cultural minorities, children, adolescents, and older adults are not being met; (3) national policies and delivery systems need to be developed to provide more comprehensive services; and (4) efforts must be conducted to increase public understanding and community support for mental health services. (HLM)… [PDF]
(1980). Intellectual Freedom in the Public Schools: An Assessment of "Tinker" and Its Progeny, 1969-1979. In 1969, in "Tinker v. Des Moines," the Supreme Court declared that both students and teachers were entitled to exercise their constitutional rights while in school. The purpose of this dissertation was to discover whether the propositions and the philosophy of "Tinker" have been used by state and federal courts to support intellectual freedom in the schools. The first two chapters survey various interpretations of the purpose and importance of free speech and examine the importance of intellectual freedom for education in a democratic society. Against this background, cases involving issues of intellectual freedom for teachers and students in public schools are then analyzed. Consideration is given to how the courts have balanced the preferred right of free speech with the unique needs and purposes of public schools. It is concluded that the major importance of the Tinker case has been its recognition and reassertion of a philosophy that respects children's… [PDF]
(1980). Promoting Sex Equity in the Classroom. Module 1, An Introduction. Revised, 1980. Serving as an introduction, this module is the first in a series of twelve modules designed to provide guidelines for evaluating recource materials and compiling creative strategies to promote sex equity in vocational technical education classrooms and in out-of-school learning experiences. This introductory module explains what a teacher can do to promote sex equity, how the sex equity guidelines can be used, how strategies designed to promote sex equity can enhance instruction, and how the sex equity materials are intended to be used. (LRA)…
(1979). The Gifted: A Perishable Resource. The booklet is designed to help parents understand how they can help in the development of their gifted children. Included are such topics as the characteristics of giftedness; the four \faces\ of gifted adolescents (high achieving studious, social leader, creative intellectual, and rebel); the role of parents; a checklist for assessing the school's needs; and individualized educational plan facts for parents. Due process procedures – including the rights to notice, program placement conferences, a due process hearing, and appeal – are discussed. A section for teachers of gifted children provides chapters with the following titles: \Establishing Goals for You and Your Students\, \All Gifted Children Don't Learn Alike\, \Meaningful/Less Meaningful Learning for the Gifted\, and \A Point to Ponder\ (which examines the necessity of special program for the gifted). A list of suggested reading and bibliographies are provided. (PHR)…