This paper was designed to aid organizations seeking to eliminate sex discrimination in the public schools. Major emphasis was placed on the need for studies of sex discrimination. Six areas of investigation should include: 1) one sex schools; 2) one sex or practically one sex courses in co-ed schools; 3) physical education, sports and other extra…

Federal action to protect and secure the educational and employment rights of hearing impaired persons is reviewed. (CL)

This article, the first of two, concentrates on the historical background and the legal basis for affirmative action. (NQ)

Instructional validity indicates that a district is testing what is taught. Minimum standards of fairness in pursuing educational equity are proposed. The standards include efforts to remediate students who fail competency tests, use instructional validity studies; present an adequate opportunity to learn, make an appropriate use of results, and…

Discusses problems in the Japanese educational system, such as increasing school violence, controversy over textbook revisions, budget cuts and the educational discrimination against minorities, particularly Burakumins and Koreans. (CMG)

Describes public education for Blacks and Coloureds in Namibia as a tool of the apartheid system meant to ensure that Namibians will be illiterate or at best semi-skilled. Also describes efforts of the United Nations Council for Namibia and the Southwest People's Organization to provide Namibians with equal education. (CMG)

Argues that in 1982 inequality in U.S. education grew while racism gained new ground. (CMG)

A whimsical look at how the rich might (and probably will) try to avoid equalization of school spending. (Editor)

Article is an interview with Secretary of Education, John C. Pittenger, who outlines the new goals and direction he hopes education will follow in the years to come. (ML)

Two works of Patricia Sexton, Education and Income, and The American School, are reviewed to illustrate the American schools' role in maintaining a class society. (DB)

Discusses the inability of the educational system to deal effectively with minority children from poverty backgrounds. Includes suggestions for reading curriculum reform. Appended are 37 references. (AA)

Reviews court litigation in Texas concerning the rights of children who are illegally residing in the United States to public schooling. Focuses particularly on the issue of whether the equal protection clause in the fourteenth amendment applies to noncitizens. (GC)

Written primarily for litigators, shows how minimum competency tests that are used to deny high school diplomas to disproportionate numbers of minority students can be successfully challenged under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Author/MK)

Teacher prejudices exert powerful influences on student growth and development and are naturally restrictive whether the prejudice comes from biases about intelligence, sexuality, ethnicity, physical appearance, or socioeconomic status. (JMF)

Assesses the impact that Edward Hammond Clarke's position on women's right to participate in higher education had on the moderate wing of the women's movement. Reflects on the debate provoked by his views that women and men should be educated differently. (KO)