Evaluates the Israeli educational system. Concludes that a separate and unequal education is the prevailing order for the non-Jewish population, and that in the Jewish sector integration among Ashkenazis and Sephardis is minimal. (CMG)

This research draws a group of women physicists' experience in organizing a local network to investigate how individuals' career decisions are affected by their identity transformation. Poststructuralist feminist theories of identity and discourse are used to compare three women physicists' cases with data collected from in-depth interviews and…

On June 23, 2003, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of race-conscious admissions policies designed to promote diversity in higher education. The Grutter versus Bollinger decision upheld the University of Michigan Law School race-conscious admissions policy as constitutional. However, in Gratz versus Bollinger, it held…

This paper traces the evolution of the choice idea over three generations, from a market model concerned with economic liberty, to a demand for social justice based on equality, to a political movement that translates the idea into policy. Focusing on the last generation, it explains why the market concept has lacked political appeal and how…

This publication sets out the allocation of funding for the widening participation special funding program in England for 1999-2000 to 2001-2002. The program is part of an effort to improve access to and participation in higher education for under-represented groups. Higher education institutions funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for…

This is a collection of papers from a 2001 symposium at Harvard University entitled "State Merit Aid Programs: College Access and Equity." After a Foreword by Gary Orfield, the seven papers are (1) "State Merit Scholarship Programs: An Introduction" (Donald E. Heller); (2) "Merit Scholarships and College Access: Evidence…

This study classifies more than 2,800 public and private four-year and two-year colleges and universities in the 50 states and the District of Columbia according to their "accessibility" to typical residents. Accessibility has two components: admissibility (whether or not a college admits typical college-bound students in the state) and…

In 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education declared the United States "A Nation at Risk" because of inadequate education. A decade and a half later, the United States is still at risk because U.S. schools are failing children. Dropout rates have declined, and college attendance has risen, but student achievement has…

The professional school is caught between a social need to grant preferred admission to disadvantaged minority applicants--and the risks that go with reverse discrimination. (DM)

New Zealand's objective is to give free to every citizen the education for which he is best fitted and to the fullest extent of his powers. (Editor/IR)

The arrival of a new kind of college student - the disadvantaged" - will permanently change the face of our campuses. (Editor)

Although many public policy statements on equalizing educational opportunity for ethnic groups in Britain have been made, the underlying policy has been one of nonaction. Central government has been reluctant to take action. A chronology of events in the education of ethnic minorities and a 1979 list of stated governmental objectives are appended.…

Reviews court decisions on discrimination cases to show that the rulings of the Supreme Court under the Nixon administration have been detrimental to the racial desegregation movement. (MJL)