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Weis, Lois, Ed.; Dolby, Nadine, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Social Class and Education: Global Perspectives" is the first empirically grounded volume to explore the intersections of class, social structure, opportunity, and education on a truly global scale. Fifteen essays from contributors representing the US, Europe, China, Latin America and other regions offer an unparralleled examination of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Middle Class, School Choice
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2012
This Annual Plan presents the major initiatives and priorities the U.S. Department of Education (Department) Office of Inspector General (OIG) intends to undertake to assist the Department in fulfilling its responsibilities to America's taxpayers and students. The Department continues to face a significant number of challenges in FY 2013 that…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Information Security, Public Agencies, Barriers
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Welner, Kevin – Review of Research in Education, 2010
The call for American students to meet world-class standards in the federal Goals 2000: Education America Act (1994) and No Child Left Behind legislation, as well as state standards and accountability legislation, has been explicitly inclusive: All students must be held to these high standards. Litigation offers the potential to leverage…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Standards, Academic Standards, Court Litigation
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Del Franco, Nicoletta – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
This study focuses on girl college students in a rural area of South West Bangladesh exploring the meaning and value they give to higher secondary education. By listening to their voices, the ethnography shows that unlike their younger counterparts, who stop studying in order to get married, girls who enrol at college develop more complex and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Secondary Education, Females
Browne, John Robert, II – Corwin, 2012
If you're serious about providing a level playing field for all, it is time to do more than identify and lament the reasons for educational disparities and why they persist. John Robert Browne II shows how Culturally Courageous Leadership by all school community stakeholders can help you achieve equitable learning opportunities and outcomes for…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, Leadership
Hughes, Sherick A., Ed.; Berry, Theodorea Regina, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Individuals are living, learning, and teaching by questioning how to address race in a society that consistently prefers to see itself as colorblind, a society claiming to seek a "post-racial" existence. This edited volume offers evidence of the evolving significance of race from a diverse group of male and female contributors…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Bias, Social Bias, Critical Theory
Bennett, John – Open Society Foundations, 2012
Every European nation has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and therefore has an obligation to protect and promote, with equity and without discrimination, the rights of all children. Yet, across Europe, the majority of poor Roma children face a challenging present and a difficult future. Their possibilities to succeed in life…
Descriptors: Migrants, Minority Groups, Ethnic Groups, Children
American Association of University Women, 2009
In the pages of this year's annual report, readers will hear the stories of women across the country who have been confronted with barriers. These women represent the unique and diverse fabric of AAUW (American Association of University Women): they are long-time members, new members, donors, grant recipients, fellows, and friends united in the…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Females, Womens Education, Barriers
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Carter, Prudence; Caruthers, Jakeya; Foster, Jessica – Perspectives in Education, 2009
In this paper we argue that although the United States and South Africa have produced qualitatively different national frames about the necessity for racial integration in education, certain practices converge in both nations at the school level that thwart integrationist goals. Drawing on sociologist Jeannie Oakes and colleagues' idea of schools…
Descriptors: Racial Integration, Racial Discrimination, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Gassman, Marybeth – Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2010
Journalist Elizabeth Redden brings to the surface several salient issues in her article entitled, "Reaching Black Men." First, she illuminates that fact that access is not enough when it comes to educating African American men. Second, she points to the importance of having campus-wide initiatives to support the success of Black men. And…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Males, African American Achievement, African American Education
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Buzzetto-More, Nicole; Ukoha, Ojiabo; Rustagi, Narendra – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2010
The under representation of women and minorities in undergraduate computer science and information systems programs is a pervasive and persistent problem in the United States. Needed is a better understanding of the background and psychosocial factors that attract, or repel, minority students from computing disciplines. An examination of these…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Females, Focus Groups, Information Systems
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Alliman-Brissett, Annette E.; Turner, Sherri L. – Journal of Black Psychology, 2010
Using an extended model of social cognitive career theory, this study investigated ways in which African American middle school adolescents perceive racism and the associations among various aspects of perceptions of racism, other background factors, and math-based career interests, efficacy, and outcome expectations. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Science Interests, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Family Influence
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Garrett, Joyce Lynn – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2008
Most Americans believe public education should be available to all citizens; yet, are schools really accessible to everyone? The author argues that they are not. She thinks they are becoming increasingly inaccessible as evidenced by the growing number of students leaving public schools for private institutions, home school, GED and Adult Basic…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Public Education, Performance Factors, Barriers
Byrnes, MaryAnn – Principal Leadership, 2008
A primer about student accommodations is presented. An accommodation is an adjustment to an activity or a setting that removes a barrier that is caused by a disability so that the person with the disability can have access equal to that of a person without a disability. An accommodation does not guarantee success or a specific level of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Barriers, Special Needs Students, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Hewlett-Thomas, Elsie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Across the international higher education spectrum access represents a significant issue. The literature is replete with analyses of access in various higher education systems. Low and inequitable patterns of participation in higher education are particularly prominent in developing countries. This dissertation is a case study of the higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Barriers, Equal Education, Access to Education
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