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Download full textTraustadottir, Rannveig – 1990
This four-part information package serves as an introduction to the lives of women and girls with disabilities and the social issues they specifically face. Part I comprises a paper which reviews the literature and major issues, titled "Obstacles to Equality: The Double Discrimination of Women with Disabilities." The paper examines three major…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Employment Opportunities
Peer reviewedDenny, Verna Haskins – Theory into Practice, 1992
African Americans are underrepresented in adult literacy programs. African-American adult literacy students were interviewed on their reasons for program attendance and nonattendance. Timing was the most important factor determining attendance. Subjects believed the educational system made learning difficult for them, and increased literacy would…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Peer reviewedEdwards, Patricia A. – Theory into Practice, 1992
Examines characteristics of successful book-reading programs for low-income African-American children and parents to encourage literacy. The paper focuses on the Parents as Partners in Reading program which encouraged and guided parents in specific, appropriate ways to assist in their children's development and learning. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Access to Education, Black Students
Peer reviewedFoster, Michele – Theory into Practice, 1992
Shared cultural backgrounds and norms about how to use language can influence classroom interactions for minorities, including African Americans. Research finds serious problems when teachers' interactional styles differ from that of students' home communities. The differences can prevent full student participation and limit academic progress.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Access to Education, Black Dialects
Peer reviewedGreenman, Nancy P.; And Others – Educational Foundations, 1992
The paper examines the problem of resistance to diversity as manifested in some institutions of higher education. It explores the mutually reinforcing dynamic between individuals and institutions in perpetuating existing structures and offers a pathway for transforming resistance into celebration of diversity by identifying sites where change can…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Faculty, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Differences
Sharp, Sally; And Others – 1996
This study examined how tracking, among a number of other background and school experience variables, affects students' predisposition to pursue a college education. It hypothesized that background characteristics and experiences affect secondary school track placement, that tracking significantly impacts students' postsecondary plans, and that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, College Bound Students
