After the 2000 presidential election during which George W. Bush erased the enormous advantage Democratic nominees had enjoyed on education by relentlessly decrying the "soft bigotry of low expectations," the president worked with Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.) and Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) to assemble a bill that ultimately…

The disproportionate representation of minority students in special education has long been recognised as a problem in the United States. It is, however, only with the 2004 authorisation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) that Congress has tried to prescribe a remedy for this. Beginning with a deconstruction of…

In this article the author discusses concepts of exclusion and inclusion and how important it is to understand exclusionary practices in the context and culture specificity of each region to attempt to remove barriers to inclusive education. She specifically discusses the low status given to girls and women in the Indian culture and how this…

Suggests that today's political climate fosters a meritocratic elite through the educational system in direct opposition to equity and justice. (JOW)

This essay critiques the current ideal of education as set forth by R.S. Peters, among others. The paper proposes the view that masculinity and femininity involve choice of particular modes of being male and female, the possibilities of which education should not deny. (MT)

Points out that education is the only area where tax monies must be spent in a government agency. Indicates that Medicare can be used in a private hospital, social security can be spent anywhere, and food stamps do not have to be used in a government store. (JOW)

Outlines some of the concepts, questions, and solutions for educators who prepare journalists in a legal and social environment that enables, rather than discourages, potential journalists with disabilities. (MG)

Reviews the memoirs of the first women to receive a university education in Germany, pointing out the inconsistency inherent in the promotion of women while limiting access to the professions for which they had trained. (Author/BSR)

This study uses a poststructural analysis to explicate the social production of Whiteness in a college classroom. Whiteness scholars define Whiteness as reference to a set of locations that are historically, socially, politically, and culturally produced, and intrinsically linked to relations of domination. Using this framework of social…

Students, parents, and teachers of today should know full well that even a whole phalanx of educational reforms does not automatically prevail over the social bigotries that persist from the past. This paper provides an uncomfortable reminder of how the democratic purposes of U.S. education must be sustained not only by court decisions and…

Argues that inequality in educational opportunity for the various social classes still persists in Sweden. (CMG)

Discussed are what NAACP branches across the nation are doing to improve the quality of education received by Blacks and steps taken by the Reagan Administration which will widen the gap between Black and White educational attainment. (RM)

Argues that educational discourse styles are affected to an excessive degree by sexism. Suggests that the values underlying sexism are so deeply ingrained as to be difficult to detect. Concludes that academics, particularly those involved in the teaching and learning of language, must be responsive to feminist criticism of sexism. (SG)

Criticizes an earlier article on nursing students with disabilities for eliminating perspectives of the disability community. Uses the social model rather than the medical model to interpret the earlier study's results as demonstrating negative behaviors and discriminatory practices toward students with disabilities. (SK)

Proceedings of the symposium on Implications for Minority Groups of the Movement Toward Minimum-Competency Testing (MCT) include the following papers: (1) "Implications of Minimum-Competency Testing for Minority Students" by A. Graham Down, who asserts that MCT offers more hope than any development in public school policy since 1954 for…