Examines the positions of different interest groups and corporations regarding the use of standardized test scores for determining educational achievement and advancement. (GC)

Summarizes criticisms of the community college in a list of six ways in which two-year colleges promote the socio-economic status quo. Reviews the writings of Clark, Jencks and Riesman, Cohen, Astin, Karabel, and Zwerling--all university-based critics. Suggests that two-year college educators analyze and profit from these criticisms. (GB)

Reviews charges that community colleges seek to "cool out" low ability students, perpetuate class structure, train paraprofessionals at public expense for private profit, and shepherd unemployed youth. Proposes an alternative system of postsecondary institutions and employers to provide remedial, general, and vocational education through…

Chicanos have been and still are segregated and discriminated against in political, judicial, social, economic, educational, and psychological ways. Historical and current evidence supports the fact that Chicanos are segregated and discriminated against in ways that rival or exceed that segregation and discrimination practiced against Blacks.…

Examines the historical blighting of African-American slaves' minds, which stripped them of their African culture. Examines the effect on African-American children, as well as other children of color. Offers suggestions for coping with the problems of modern schools in terms of respecting and teaching these children that the system is the problem,…

Raises questions about the education of girls in contemporary American education. Offers suggestions for teachers and parents to help make the schools good places for girls to study and grow. (SR)

Explores possible reasons why the Seventh-day Adventist educational system has not drawn as widespread attention as it might, given the nature of the philosophy upon which it is based. The paper discusses the mismatch between the Seventh-day Adventist stated philosophy and actual practices (natural versus artificial curriculum, inclusion versus…

The history of left-handedness can provide teachers and parents a better understanding of left-handed children and give those children more pride in their difference. No child should be made to feel that he or she is abnormal because of using the left hand, although some specific instruction for these students is necessary in handwriting. Many…

If the mission of schooling is defined by democratic standards, schools must respond to societal conditions in order to perform well for all students, and the schools' constituents (parents, children, and the community) must be empowered. (Author/GC)

A discussion of how the balance of a dual system of education existing in Iran since the 19th century has, since the 1979 revolution, been upset in favor of a religious system. (CMG)

Describes how the state of Georgia responded to federal charges of discrimination in the use of the Test of Adult Basic Education as an admissions test for vocational-technical schools. (JOW)

Provides responses from a small group of conservative scholars concerning the compromise proposed by Dr. James Q. Wilson indicating that the nation will allow some affirmative action in the form of race-based preferential admissions at the undergraduate level, but not in graduate programs. (GR)

Discusses research on the impact of environment on identity and mentality, the need for major reform of practices at odds with American ideals of equality, and overcoming biased research. Calls for further research on the impact of difference and unequal treatment on learning. (KH)

Hispanic women face problems in developing leadership or mentor relationships due to conflicts within their culture, conflicts with the majority culture, and educational/financial barriers. Without a faculty member to mentor the Hispanic female student, graduate study may be difficult or impossible to achieve. (DF)

There is a need for more precise descriptions of the claims to truth of standardized tests, of their interpretive authority, and of the limits of understanding which are reached through their processes. Typically minority students who score poorly on such tests do because their schools fail to connect with them. Pedagogy, therefore, must somehow…