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Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1994
This document provides a status report of the Michigan Department of Education's Civil Rights Compliance Program in the area of vocational education. The report is based on compliance audits of a minimum of 20 percent of the state's total number of secondary and postsecondary vocational education providers. Compliance activities were conducted by…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Equal Education
Foster, Jan; Simonds, Betty – 1995
This assessment kit has been designed to assist local school districts in Michigan in evaluating their vocational education programs for compliance with Title IX. The information that is collected and tabulated can be used by the districts in planning efforts to achieve Title IX compliance and sex equity in vocational education. The assessment kit…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Educational Legislation, Equal Education
Detroit Board of Education, MI. – 1962
This document presents the recommendations for equal educational opportunities prepared in 1962 by a citizens group appointed by the Board of Education in Detroit, Michigan. Also included are the Board's action on each recommendation, and comments by the staff of the Board. Covered are such areas as curriculum and guidance, organization and…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Curriculum, Educational Facilities
Harris, Debbi; Ray, Lisa – 2003
Data from the National Center for Education Statistics are used to look at Michigan's progress in meeting the challenge of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) that teachers be "highly qualified." The data also allow the study of whether all students in Michigan have access to the highly qualified teachers required by the NCLB.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1974
Attention has periodically been given to inequality of opportunity in higher education in Michigan by both the governor's office and the state board of education. Activities to date have been based upon the premise that disadvantaged students have often been effectively excluded from participation in higher education, and that certain procedures…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education), Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Assessment
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1971
Testimony was presented at these hearings by the following witnesses: Ronald Edmonds, assistant superintendent, School and Community Affairs, Michigan Department of Education; Dr. Daniel H. Kruger, professor, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University; Robert McKerr, associate superintendent, Business and Finance, Michigan…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Diagnosis
Anderson, Patrick L.; McLellan, Richard; Overton, Joseph P.; Wolfram, Gary – 1997
This report presents a proposal to expand parental choice in Michigan education by amending the Michigan Constitution and establishing a Universal Tuition Tax Credit (UTTC). Section 1 reviews why parental choice is the most important systemic education reform and evaluates various ways to expand it. Section 2 examines Michigan's constitutional…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Educational Opportunities
New England Resource Center for Higher Education, 2003
The United States Supreme Judicial Court is currently deliberating the University of Michigan Affirmative Action lawsuits involving three white students who claim they were discriminated against because of race-conscious admissions policies. Organizations, such as the Center for Individual Rights, which sponsored the Michigan plaintiffs, and the…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Policy, College Admission, Higher Education

Enomoto, Ernestine K.; Angus, David L. – Journal of Negro Education, 1995
Characterizes the school attendance of African Americans in rural Cass County (Michigan) prior to and following the Civil War. Before the war a substantial difference between the races existed in school enrollment, but in the 1860s and 1870s, African American school enrollment rose, superseding that of whites by the 1880s. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attendance, Black Students, Educational History
Kenkel, Sue; Hoelscher, Steve; West, Teri – Educational Leadership, 2006
When 29 percent of final grades for students at Bendle Middle School showed up as Ds and Es, teachers knew something had to give. Kenkel, Hoelscher, and West describe how the ABCI approach, based on mastery learning, shook up a community culture of low expectations for working class kids, and opened the way for more appropriate teaching methods…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, Grades (Scholastic), Mastery Learning
Fulford, Nancy, Ed. – 1994
Policy briefs are reports on the status of current issues in education from a national perspective; descriptions of actions and agendas in the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) region; and commentaries by experts from their particular point of view; and resources for further information. The focus of this report is technology…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Policy, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Office of Career and Technical Education. – 1997
This guide and coordinator's manual are designed to assist administrators of local agencies, area vocational centers, and postsecondary institutions in Michigan in assessing and improving their compliance with civil rights regulations relating to vocational education. The guide is based on an interpretation of the following laws: Title VI of the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Educational Legislation, English (Second Language)
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1987
This report presents the recommendations for improving American Indian education made by the Michigan State Superintendent of Schools' Special Native American Advisory Committee. The recommendations were made based on the committee's study of the educational condition of American Indians in Michigan and the federal Indian education programs. Some…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Disproportionate Representation, Dropout Rate
Carroll, Stephen J. – 1979
Part of a three-volume report on the effects of school finance reform, this volume examines reform efforts in California, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, and New Mexico. Data on districts' tax rates, wealth, and number of pupils were obtained from state sources. Data on household income, percent urban, percent white, and percent poverty were obtained…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
Porter, John W. – 1979
Drastic reform of the nation's public education system is called for in this paper. It is argued that technological advances and social changes in the past quarter century have given schools a new role and purpose, particularly with regard to the education of blacks. Specific changes which have been implemented in the Michigan Public Schools are…
Descriptors: Black Education, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Quality