Suggests that at small and medium-sized colleges, faculty members (particularly those in Black Studies) can help to protect educational opportunities for athletes if they gain the confidence of the athletes themselves and the ear of sympathetic administrators. Describes different strategies toward the same end which are necessary in large…

The major factors affecting the academic performance of Black students in predominantly White colleges center upon a lack of confidence in their abilities, a shortage of advocates, particularly personal advocates, and the continuing denial of educational opportunities for Blacks. (Author/EB)

Eighteen black students were asked their perceptions of life on a predominantly white university campus, Syracuse University (New York). Data from interviews were analyzed as well as accounts in the campus newspaper during the 5-year period 1988-1993 and interviews with four administrators who worked with minority students in an academic support…

Provides a brief history of the discrimination against Black education and argues that Blacks now attend separate and unequal schools. (IRT)

A decision upholding the constitutionality of Florida's competency exam is reviewed and school boards advised of measures for ensuring fairness and legality in competency testing: a curriculum that teaches the skills tested, adequate remedial instruction, and several chances to take the test. (MJL)

This article discusses how the broadening of the federal definition of giftedness will possibly increase the number of students identified as gifted. Far from dumbing down the definition, this article argues the new definition will allow many minority children to be identified and served as gifted students. (Contains 8 references.) (CR)

Discusses the history of the admission of African Americans at the Harvard Medical School and the racial prejudice that followed. The author reveals how Harvard medical students of the time believed that blacks were intellectually inferior and that having black students at the school would devalue the school and their diplomas. (GR)

This study compared using a minimum IQ cutoff score and a simple difference method versus a regression-based method for identifying specific learning disabilities (SLD) in African American and European American college students (n=117). The regression-based method resulted in a significantly larger proportion of identified African Americans.…

Uses a case study of Charleston, South Carolina, to analyze the new, more rational, legally defensible, durable forms of desegregation and discrimination that replaced caste arrangements in public education, focusing on the development and implications of high stakes tests for both teachers and students. (SM)

Presents three case studies of members of the Teachers' League of South Africa who taught from the 1940s through 1985 and challenged the apartheid regime. Analyzes the relevance of these stories in relation to apartheid and explores the lives and work of these progressive teachers. (SM)

As a statistical tabulation based on raw data collected by the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, this report presents tables of data which illustrate trends in black school segregation from 1970-1974. The statistics provide a detailed profile of the pattern of black enrollment in schools with various…

Examines problems historically and currently faced by Black athletes involved in intercollegiate sports on predominantly White campuses. Many such students are academically underprepared and face issues such as housing discrimination, social isolation, and demeaning attitudes of coaches and peers. Black college athletes rarely receive experiences…

To account for racial differences in learning, the report examines educational technology--the conditions and activities that constitute instruction--in three Chicago area school districts. Results show that black students are exposed to restricted learning opportunities because of district and school differences in the availability of…

Focus groups or interviews with 31 family members and 8 adolescents from minority communities investigated barriers families encountered as their adolescent youth with disabilities move into adulthood. Barriers included insensitivity/discrimination, lack of accommodations, and unresponsive services. Survey findings from 308 parents were consistent…

Examines rural African Americans' struggle for education during Booker T. Washington's time, documenting the irony in the fact that, although the age of Washington has come to symbolize dramatic educational gains for African Americans because of his advocacy, Southern rural African-American education during his career actually deteriorated…