Distorted images of American minorities are reflected in all spheres of American life, including academic and public policies. Some specific examples include: (1) Harvard's 1922 quota system for Jews, the university's pattern of white supremacy, and bias in its scholarly research; (2) the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II; (3)…

Argues that equal educational opportunity has never been realized nationally or internationally. Suggests that the degree of selection is higher in Germany and other German-speaking countries than elsewhere. Concludes that exceptional curricular and structural factors in Bielefeld's experimental Oberstufen-Kolleg helped achieve equal educational…

Examines how educators concerned with America's educational inequality participate in the development of postmodern explanations of education and society that legitimize multiple perspectives on events and institutions and the ways that subordinated groups describe their own experiences. Discusses: the social construction of race and ethnicity,…

Presents facts and figures disputing many of the traditional sex stereotypes of working women. (WM)

Prejudicial attitudes are commonplace in our society, and they adversely affect all of our children. Children of a minority or poor group are directly affected because they are likely to suffer hunger, poor health and housing, and inadequate schools. White, middle class children are affected in ways which are less obvious, but just as damaging. In…

Within the current historical crisis of transnational capitalism, disabled people are finding themselves increasingly at risk. It is essential to (re)theorize the category of disability, particularly in critical response to the emancipatory possibilities offered through "border pedagogies." The paper locates the conceptual category of disability…

Illegal aliens are guaranteed an education at public expense by the Constitution. (JD)

Discusses Israeli teachers' negative attitudes toward Jews of North African and Middle Eastern origin, who constitute about half of Israel's Jewish population and comprise 90 percent of Israel's disadvantaged. Describes several countermeasures and predicts that change will come as the position of Oriental Jews in Israeli society improves. (DM)

Asserts that the U.S. educational system perpetuates the social inequalities of a class hierarchy by allocating differential "educational capital" along class lines. Review of relevant literature finds that unequal critical thinking development at institutions of varying selectivity, coupled with the positive association between…

Presents a model gauging effects of race, sex, and social class for studying social policy's effects on education. The model is represented by intersecting circles defining concepts of cultural bias, individual prejudice, and institutional discrimination. Three superimposed double-sided arrows represent the cyclical nature of discrimination and…

This introductory article discusses the extent to which teacher education, leadership development, school arrangements, and disciplinary practices affect African American learners with disabilities. It urges educators to engage in critical self-reflection to examine their ethical and sociopolitical philosophy and practices that privilege some…

The authors review research on (a) gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) families and the nature of discrimination against them; (b) school factors that hinder and facilitate equity for GLBT families; (c) instituting change through organizational consultation or large group-level strategies; and (d) instituting change through traditional…

The school, often inadvertently and unconsciously, subordinates ethnic and racial minorities. School mechanisms have developed which tend to support ethnic isolation, perpetuate stereotyping and other myths, and in manifold ways differentially treat minorities. School segregation, ability grouping, student fees, and curricular or extracurricular…

This paper describes the history of women in education in America. The primary force that allowed women into the nations' colleges was economic rather than ideological, when the Civil War took many men out of college. Women have been increasingly involved in higher education since then; however, they have been subject to job discrimination, and…

This article reviews activities of the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education involving programs for gifted students from 1985 through 1991. Analysis of 48 letters of findings identified issues involved, protected classes, geographic regions involved, and results of investigations. (Author/DB)