These national standards are designed to provide a uniform pattern for establishing and operating effective apprenticeship programs for sign, display, and allied workers. Included in the volume are the following: provisions of the standards (definitions, qualifications for apprenticeship, selection of apprentices, terms of apprenticeship, related…

The annotated bibliography describes the content of 71 documents treating the role of women as public school administrators. Of the documents, 16 discuss current trends in the employment of women as administrators, 28 concern the attitudes and perceptions of society concerning the presence of women in leadership positions in education, 13 review…

This study documents the pervasiveness of male dominance in educational leadership roles. Statistics demonstrate that only a very small number of women occupy positions in top-level administration. Legislation and regulations affecting women in higher education and at the elementary and secondary education levels are identified. The study…

This is the fourth of a series of Capsule Bibliographies on current issues in urban and minority education. It is a selection from a computer search using suitable descriptors matched against a standard Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse profile for urban and minority concepts. Such descriptors (subject headings) as…

Examines past Supreme Court decisions that have affected public education to explain currently held views concerning the Supreme Court in the 1970s. Observes that the 1980s will be a period of consolidation and clarification of court decisions and legislation of the 1960s and 1970s. (Author/MJL)

This paper outlines and explains legal issues related to race-based affirmative action, which is defined as race-conscious action designed to overcome manifest racial imbalance. The paper highlights the history of affirmative action and its following objectives: (1) to overcome the effects of past discrimination; (2) to ensure against future…

This fact sheet summarizes labor market statistics on nontraditional jobs for women and public policy, barriers, and strategies regarding such employment. Among the data presented are the following: nontraditional jobs for women are jobs in which 75 percent or more of those employed are men; 9 percent of all working women are employed in…

The contents of this newsletter concern affirmative action and employment, education of women, women's studies, Title IX; medicine, sports, and international news. The following news items are included: increased part-time careers in academe, the status of women faculty in academe, new decisions on sex discrimination, HEW investigations of major…

As part of a study of the implementation of affirmative action in academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, interviews were conducted with the heads of ten of the eleven departments and programs of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (FNSM). The data received were combined with written data available in…

Contains articles on such topics as the progress of black student enrollment at highly ranked institutions; academic performance of black athletes at highly ranked universities; racism on official U.S. maps; sharply deteriorating black enrollments at U.S. medical schools; crime on the rise at many black college campuses; the annual black college…

Developed over a 2-year period, this manual is a guide for school district officials in developing fair and consistent hiring procedures. Section 1 is a brief compilation of the federal laws and regulations governing hiring practices in the public elementary and secondary schools. It includes legislation relating to civil rights, fair employment…

An investigation was conducted of state enforcement of the Vocational Education Guidelines issued in 1979 to prevent discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, sex, or handicap in vocational training. The guidelines are administered by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) through methods of administration (MOA) developed by the states that…

This document is a transcript of Congressional hearings on equal employment opportunity and affirmative action held in the summer and fall of 1981. Some of those who testified at the hearing included a professor of economics, a representative of the Rockefeller Foundation, directors of women's groups, directors of the National Association for the…

Case histories of Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) projects are presented, along with information on WEEA's mandate, operation, and new directions. The WEEA projects support the development of curricula and training materials for the education of females at pre-elementary to postsecondary schools, along with efforts of private sector and…

The equal employment opportunity policies of the Reagan administration may be summarized in the following manner: while the administration will not retreat from the historic commitment to enforce federal civil rights laws, it will no longer insist upon, or in any way support, the use of quotas or any numerical or statistical formula designed to…