(1980). Multiculturalism: A Canadian Reality. Report of the Canadian Conference on Multiculturalism (3rd, Ottawa, Ontario, October 27-29, 1978). This report presents the proceedings of a conference held by the Canadian Consultative Council on Multiculturalism. Included are transcripts of the opening and welcoming remarks to the conference, a resume of the proceedings of the entire conference, and a series of papers presented, all of which focused on ethnic groups and their participation in the multicultural society of Quebec. In addition, summaries of briefs submitted by ethnic group organizations and of the activities of ten conference workshops (five for community leaders and five for young people) are presented. Finally, the reports, resolutions and recommendations compiled by the workshop participants are detailed. (MK)…
(1977). A Report of the Canadian Consultative Council on Multiculturalism 1977. Rapport du Conseil Consultatif Canadien du Multiculturalisme 1977. In its capacity as an advisory body to the Canadian Minister of State for Multiculturalism, the Canadian Consultative Council on Multiculturalism prepared this report, written in English and French, in order to compare the government's policy of multiculturalism with its realization in practice. The work was conducted through five standing committees: Language and Cultural Development, Immigration Policy, Media, Human Rights and Humanitarian Concerns, and Grants. Part I summarizes findings and recommendations derived from a series of hearings and consultations held by the committees concerning the areas of language, education, immigration, communications, legal rights, and the government's role in fostering cultural pluralism. Part II presents evaluations of progress toward meeting recommendations made in a previous report. The following topics are addressed: retention of language and culture, human rights, cultural and multicultural community centers, the ethnic press and mass…
(1973). Teaching as a Profession and Process of Teaching: Secondary. This document contains eight learning modules for use in the preservice education of secondary school teachers. The modules use various techniques and resources in helping the teacher trainee attain the objectives outlined and include identification questions, essay questions, case histories, and readings. The topics covered are: (1) teacher rights and responsibilities; (2) the characteristics of effective teachers, teacher roles, codes of ethics; (3) teacher negligence; (4) local school and district organization and administration; (5) cooperating teacher responsibilities in competency-based teacher education; (6) national, state, and county organization of education and varied aspects of teacher licensing; (7) student teacher responsibilities in the classroom in competency-based teacher education; and (8) lesson planning. (MB)… [PDF]
(1976). You-Me-And the Three R's of Law. Elementary Law Curriculum. Fourteen units of increasing difficulty and abstraction for grade levels one through six examine the responsibility to law, rights and privileges of law, reasons for laws, and justice. Each unit presents the objective, suggested activities, and topics for discussion. Grade 1 focusses on responsibility, sharing, taking turns, respect for private and public property, home rules, cheating, and punishment. Grade 2 discusses rights of children in a family, authority figures, privileges, and individual rights such as speaking when you want, wearing what you want, or playing with merchandise in a store. In addition to previous topics, Grade 3 examines parents' responsibility toward children, community service, when and if you can say \no\ to your parents, vandalism, and shoplifting. Discussion topics in grades 4, 5, and 6 include self-defense, self-respect, character assassination, responsibility to environment, conflicting responsibilities, a \Child's Bill of Rights,\ and protest. The…
(1978). L'irredentisme linguistique: Une enquete temoin (Linguistic Irredentism: An Investigation Model). A study was conducted in Ireland of the mechanisms of linguistic change and the effects of a politics of linguistic irredentism on the language behavior of the population. The objectives of the study were: (1) to discover the nature and the importance of people's attitudes toward the Irish language and its restoration, and (2) to ascertain the degree of public support for political measures aimed at restoring the language. Because the success of language-related politics depends on public behavior as much as public opinion, it was necessary to discover factors favoring the learning and usage of the language, as well as factors mediating between public opinion and learning the language on one hand and knowledge and use of it on the other. Preliminary research was done in order to derive the data for the opinion poll in the main portion of the study that would be based on real opinions and not opinions the people were supposed to have. The results of the study were analyzed under four… [PDF]
(1977). Chapter 622: A Guide for Administrators. Massachusetts's Chapter 622 and U.S. Title IX regulations both prohibit discrimination by educational institutions. This guide is designed to assist administrators, particularly in Massachusetts, in complying fully with the spirit and letter of these regulations. The guide is divided into thirteen chapters, seven of which use parallel format to cover application of the regulations and compliance techniques to seven specific program areas: admissions, curriculum, guidance, extracurricular activities, scholarships and awards, inservice education, and personnel practices. Other chapters deal with the role of the 622/IX coordinator, annual requirements, complaints and grievances, systemwide planning, organizational dynamics, and resource usage. Five basic practices are encouraged through all these chapters: thorough planning, the involvement of staff at all levels, careful strategy development, research on new educational directions that can be developed through implementation of the…
(1971). The Legality of Chicano Education. The thesis briefly analyzed the laws of the State of Texas and of the United States which directly affect the education of Texas Mexican Americans. The legal-political history of "Chicano" education in Texas was traced from the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 to August 1971. The educational "problems" of Mexican Americans were examined in light of their solutions as sought through legislative and judicial action. Most of the legislation discussed dealt with the use of the Spanish language in the schools and with bilingual education. Data were gathered from: (1) legal documents obtained from various court and law clerks and (2) parliamentary journals for both the House and Senate. Eight court cases involving Mexican American students and Texas schools were discussed: (1) Salvatierra vs the Del Rio Independent School District (I.S.D.); (2) Delgado Case; (3) Hernandez vs Driscoll Consolidated; (4) Pete Hernandez vs the State of Texas; (5) Ross vs…
(1975). A Bill to Provide for Affording Equal Educational Opportunities for Students in the Nation's Elementary and Secondary Schools; 94th Congress, 1st Session, H.R. 10146, in the House of Representatives, October 9, 1975. This document contains the components of the National Educational Opportunities Act of 1975. Among the purposes of this Act are the provision for a viable mechanism for States and their local educational systems to implement the national policy on equal educational opportunity, the improvement of results achieved by elementary and secondary education throughout the nation, the facilitation of the reduction in the concentration of children from minority groups and low-income families in certain schools, including prevention of resegregation after desegregation has been achieved, and the reduction and elimination of any educational ill-effects resulting from the concentration of children from minority groups and low-income families in schools where such concentrations are found to exist. Title II provides the guidelines to be followed by State equal educational opportunities plans, and Title III contains such items as the general provisions and definitions for terms such as minority…
(1975). Privacy and Disclosure Regulation of Information Systems; A Bibliographic Survey. Publication 75-8. Concern is growing over the problems of freedom of information, individual right to privacy, and automated recordkeeping systems. As a guide to policy considerations for overview and for detail, this extensive structured bibliography of privacy and disclosure literature adopts a topical scheme, dividing the subject first into governmental and nongovermental information and then into 12 kinds of information systems. In the area of government, the bibliography is divided into crime information, public information, personal information, statistical information, political information, and tax information. In the nongovernmental area, the citations are divided into credit information, financial information, medical information, personnel information, commercial information, and school information. Under the topic of transfer of information, material is divided into that which deals with interconnection of computers and that which deals with Social Security numbers as standard universal…
(1976). Pupils. This chapter summarizes recent state supreme court and federal court decisions involving the rights of school pupils. The cases discussed are generally limited to those decided during 1975 and reported in the General Digest as of March 1976. In his discussion, the author attempts to integrate related cases and to illuminate any unifying legal principles that underlie the decisions relevant to each specific subtopic involving school pupils. Separate sections of the article focus in turn on cases involving exceptional students, extracurricular activities, tuition and school assignment, religious and conscientious beliefs of parents and pupils, students' substantive rights, sanctions for student misconduct, and school desegregation. (JG)…
(1974). What to Do Till the Lawyer Comes. A Handbook of School Law for the Seattle Public Schools. This handbook is designed to give school administrators and teachers a basic understanding of law as it impacts on the public school of today. Therefore, the fundamental law in the areas of school liability, church-state relationship, community relations, student rights, teacher-school relations, and parent-school relations is set out in each section, often with clarifying examples. In addition, procedures or guidelines are laid out to help in dealing safely with situations with underlying legal implications. Whereas this handbook should be of assistance to administrators and teachers in dealing with their daily problems, it is not intended to replace but only to supplement the ongoing advice of legal counsel. As fact patterns are ever varying, as problems differ from school to school, and as the law is always changing, a school administrator will be wise to continue to seek the advice of legal counsel. (Author)…
(1970). Historical Highlights in the Education of Black Americans. This booklet shows the continuity, from 1619 to the present, of movements in the education of black people in the United States. Material presented in the booklet is aimed at increasing understanding and stimulating efforts to reach a just solution in the struggle for school integration and equality of opportunity. Chapters focus on: the African heritage of the black people; three of their early traditions; impact of the American Revolution; the ideal of school integration; the effect of the Civil War; post-Civil War education; the opinions of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois; neglect in twentieth century school integration; and, the effect of federal intervention and community control. Extensive references are provided. (DM)… [PDF]
(1974). Several Legal Issues Challenge Traditional \Melting-Pot\ Idea for Educational Policy. Several variants of the \melting pot\ ideology have informed the actions of those responsible for educational policy-making in the United States. This ideology has increasingly come under attack by a variety of persons. The purpose of this paper is to outline several legal grounds on which this ideology has been and will be challenged and to spell out some of the implications of successful challenges. The \melting pot\ ideology provided some of the impetus in all the states (except Mississippi). Finding in it the state's interest to both compel children to attend school and prevent them from working. At the same time, through the exercise of its policy powers, each of the states has developed a system for selecting and licensing those entrusted with the education of the state's young. There arises out of these interrelated state actions a complex web of issues. In other instances, the state has sought at least in theory to protect the public interest through occupational and… [PDF]
(1972). Between Two Milestones: The First Report to the President of the United States by the Special Education Subcommittee of the National Council on Indian Opportunity. The "First Report to the United States President by the Special Education Subcommittee of the National Council on Indian Opportunity is presented. The subcommittee, established to implement the policy of self-determination without termination in the educational sector of American and Alaskan Native Affairs, was initiated by the July 8, 1970 Presidential Policy Message. Its purpose is to provide technical assistance to Native communities to establish local boards of education and to report the status and monitor change in education through national review and annual assessments. The 9-member subcommittee conducted regional hearings in the 48 states and Alaska. Among its findings were that: (1) the Federal Government failed to implement its proposed policy of placing Federal elementary and secondary day and boarding schools on or off reservations under control school boards; (2) the small proportions of Johnson-O'Malley funds contracted directly to tribes indicated hesitancy or…
(1974). The American Revolution: Democratic Politics and Popular Education. Education will become the functioning instrument of a stable democracy by being in all its stages and dimensions an example of the democratic process. Within this framework, the desegregation of our schools can proceed; and with the desegregation of our schools, we can achieve that more difficult stage–the true integration of our schools. The struggle to extend American democratic ideals to the nonwhite groups in America has been continuous, albeit irregular in its progress. This struggle may be viewed as the main theme of American history. From this perspective, the following emerge as dominant qualities in American history: (1) the articulation of democratic ideals and aspirations as the foundation of the American political system provided and continues to provide a powerful basis for the struggle to realize these ideals; (2) various groups of Europeans who have migrated to America have benefitted from the American system of democracy; (3) built into the American political and… [PDF]