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Fernandez, Philip; Thompson, Sarah – Education Canada, 2000
Since 1899, Frontier College in Toronto (Canada) has promoted lifelong learning by bringing literacy courses to Canadians who are poor, undereducated, or isolated in other ways. More than 2,000 university students from 40 campuses and many community volunteers help the disabled, street-youth, Native people, migrant farm workers, ex-offenders, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Community Education, Disadvantaged
Malveaux, Julianne – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
The landmark legal decision, Brown v. Board of Education, was rendered on May 17, 1954. Fifty years later, campuses and communities are commemorating the decision and its impact on contemporary life. The Harvard legal scholar, Charles Ogletree, has published a riveting book of his reflections, a government commission is staging a variety of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Higher Education, Racial Segregation
Download full textHunter, Richard C. – 1988
The at-risk status of so many American children is not an accident, but rather a direct result of our social and economic history. This document briefly recounts the history of blacks in the United States and draws on the experiences of the author in his capacity as superintendent of an urban school district to substantiate this position. Reverse…
Descriptors: Black History, Black Students, Educational History, Educational Quality
Peer reviewedTheobald, Paul; Donato, Ruben – Peabody Journal of Education, 1990
Chronicles experiences of depression era "Okies," juxtaposes them against experiences of Mexican Americans, and illuminates the diminution of agricultural labor in an industrializing society. Schooling for those groups was legitimized by their low occupational status. When economic circumstances improved, whites escaped from migrant…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Passow, A. Harry – 1992
It is more than a quarter century since Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, the first major Federal legislation authorizing funds for compensatory education for the disadvantaged, came into effect. In 1981, Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) replaced Title I. Some Federal funding…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Context Effect
Spence, Beth – 1998
This report looks at recent educational history in West Virginia, particularly in Lincoln County, where school conditions stemming from poverty and politics resulted in the historic 1982 decision by Judge Arthur Recht. The Recht Decision found that the state's public schools failed to meet the "thorough and efficient" standard demanded…
Descriptors: Activism, Centralization, Consolidated Schools, Court Litigation
