A hypothetical court proceeding is presented in which society is found guilty of denying basic rights to mentally retarded persons. (CL)

Examines the response of America's education system to the Hmong, a closely-knit, agricultural, tribal people of Laos. This situation is a case study of the system's capacity for accommodating cultural diversity and considering the neediest of students. (LHW)

This paper provides an overview of U.S. Department of Education programs authorized and funded under federal law. It includes information as well on the laboratories, centers, and other facilities funded by the Department that provide important resources for education. Each entry, which gives a brief overview of a program or resource, is listed…

Reprinted are seven major priority recommendations of the 1973 report of the National Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children as it relates to the basic educational rights of the handicapped. (GW)

Postsecondary education in the United States is in a state of financial crisis. The two reasons for this are: (1) the college age population increased at a rate of 4.2 percent per year during the 1960's; and (2) during the 1960's the locus of growth in the number of years of formal education completed by the young shifted from secondary to…

This article, taken from the Effective Schools Development in Education Act of 1984, describes the effective schools movement and sketches a representative example of an effective schools program. It also gives the aims of the proposed act and urges more research on the dynamics of school effectiveness program implementation and impact. (RDN)

During the past 25 years, the country witnessed a dramatic transformation of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Actions by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), Congress, and the National Assessment Governing Board fundamentally changed NAEP's role in federal educational policy and the nation's schools. Developed in the 1960s…

At 40.4 million strong (14% of the U.S. population; U.S. Bureau of the Census 2005), Latinas/os are the largest and fastest growing U.S. ethnic minority group. In the last 15 years, since the Los Angeles riots of 1992, Anglo perceptions that the Latina/o population is too large, growing too fast, and too illegal have both continued and perpetuated…

The Reagan Administration's education voucher proposal was the subject of these hearings on H.R. 2397, a Bill To Improve the Educational Achievement of Educationally Deprived Children by Expanding Opportunities for Their Parents To Choose Schools That Best Meet Their Needs, To Foster Diversity and Competition among School Programs For…

The President's Task Force on Higher Education was asked to submit a statement on priorities for higher education and to suggest how the federal government might assist higher education. This report presents the priorities and divides them on three levels: (1) immediate federal priorities, to include: financial aid for disadvantaged students,…

A series of articles on the education of American Indians focus on historical studies, teachers, the school and Indian culture, the Chemawa boarding school for Indians in Oregon, urban Indians, and federal policy. (AM)

This paper addresses the rights of children, families, and society regarding the care and education of young children. The paper addresses two basic questions concerning what is meant by the word "right." The first question is, "What is right for young children and families in order to ensure optimal development?" The response…

The role of government in financing education is critical to achieving equal opportunity in a just society, but current federal policies that promote student access may actually be discouraging educational excellence by denying adequate funding to the institutions themselves. (Editor/LBH)