Having won the principle of equal access to the schools, minority groups are focusing on equal access to schools of high quality. (Editor)

"Taking account of race" means more than simply acknowledging it and regarding it as a plus. An admissions committee is considering a range of human experience in which the candidate's performance must be evaluated in light of that experience. (Author)

Presents results of an informal ethnic survey of students in the Hawaii School System at the end of the 1974 school year. (Author/AM)

Clarifies the magazine's editorial policy of rejecting the proposition that equity and excellence represent two poles of a single continuum. Rather, each concept is a separate dimension. (LHW)

This report is comprised of a section of three talks in the special session on Mathematics and Education Reform at the January, 2000 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Washington, DC. This issue, which includes three articles based on the presentations and two additional articles, continues discussion on issues and successful approaches to improve the…

The only fool-proof procedure for achieving total equality of education is to guarantee equality of end product. The school will not be an effective force in breaking the environmental cycle of inequality until and unless there is a concerted effort on the part of all governmental agencies to equalize opportunity throughout society. (Author)

Making certain that minority groups are well represented in student bodies is often difficult, as in the case of the University of Michigan where the student body numbers over 40,000. (HS)

Argues that, as a total group, those who are, or should be, or must become concerned about the current thrust against equality are capable of and should inject this issue into the forthcoming election; that Presidential candidates must be forced to come to close grips with the threat to fragile American egalitarian principles. (RJ)

Details the charge that America's public schools fail to provide minority and poor children with the knowledge and skills needed to earn a decent living and to participate in the life of the nation. (Author)

Addresses the rights asserted by indigenous peoples and recognized by the United Nations and then considers Australian performance in higher education relative to these recognized rights. Presents some options aimed at making Indigenous education an enforceable right rather than a matter of administrative and political goodwill. (SLD)

Multicultural education generally seeks to challenge processes that reproduce inequality, whereas special education sometimes creates standards of normality and separate systems that reflect larger social inequities. A social reconstruction approach envisions a single, unified system of education for all in which staffing, administration, and…

It is 40 years since Coombs (1967) first drew attention to the World Education Crisis, and specifically problems in the educational systems of countries in the developing world. Today, many of these problems remain, and are most visible in the educational systems of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. A large number of children remain out of school…

Federal law emphasizes the need for states and districts to ensure that "all" students--particularly at-risk students, minority students, and students in high-poverty areas--have access to highly qualified, experienced teachers. But is it sufficient for a teacher to have "paper" qualifications and teaching experience? After all, appropriate…

Females, students of color, and students of low socioeconomic status (SES) are often underserved or marginalized in mathematics education. However, some instructional approaches and intervention programs have been shown to educate these students more equitably. This study examines how girls of diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds…

For more than four decades, universities have used affirmative-action policies to increase the participation of U.S.-born women and members of minority groups in higher education, where traditionally they have been under-represented. Yet those policies, often applied in decisions about which students to admit and which faculty members to hire,…