An attorney involved in Alaska's "Molly Hootch Case" chronicles the events surrounding the class action suit, which resulted in a 1976 consent decree to establish a high school program in all of the 126 villages that wanted one. Legal, educational, and cultural consequences for bush Alaska are discussed. (BS)

A discussion of how the balance of a dual system of education existing in Iran since the 19th century has, since the 1979 revolution, been upset in favor of a religious system. (CMG)

The Australian Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) established the Taskforce on Indigenous Education to address issues of educational inequity for aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It had a number of terms of reference, including providing advice to Ministers on making these issues a…

The exclusion of poor scholars from the grammar schools of South-West Lancashire resulted from the economic and social conditions of mid-nineteenth century England rather than to the passage of the Endowed Schools Act in 1869. (Author/WM)

Examines the treatment of Blacks and females in juvenile reformatories from 1825-1900 through a review of reformatory annual reports. Data revealed White males were trained as artisans or farmers, while Black males were denied admission or trained as manual laborers. Females were trained as wives or domestics. (JAC)

Describes how the state of Georgia responded to federal charges of discrimination in the use of the Test of Adult Basic Education as an admissions test for vocational-technical schools. (JOW)

The six different opinions in the Bakke case are analyzed to gain an understanding of the final decision in light of the issues that were considered by the Supreme Court. The implications for admission, financial aid, and affirmative action programs are discussed. (Author)

Argues that weak student performance in science and mathematics can be attributed in part to a severe underrepresentation of women in science courses and careers. Discusses differential treatment as well as differences in science and mathematics instruction. (DDR)

Provides responses from a small group of conservative scholars concerning the compromise proposed by Dr. James Q. Wilson indicating that the nation will allow some affirmative action in the form of race-based preferential admissions at the undergraduate level, but not in graduate programs. (GR)

Discusses the problem in Portugal of increasing demand for and increasing difficulties in accessing higher education, and the range of educational strategies being used in response to the increasing competition for educational credentials. These practices are shown to have developed a new context for class competition within higher education. (GR)

Describes the experiences of an American teacher in an inner-city Melbourne school that primarily serves recent immigrants to Australia. Reflects on both overt and more subtle forms of educational discrimination found in Australian and U.S. schools. (SV)

A Dutch study compared two first grade classes with regard to teacher treatment of students and student behavior (dependent variables). One class participated in a national initiative to reduce or eliminate educational inequities. The independent variables included socioeconomic background, sex, scholastic identity attributed by the teacher, and…

Sephardi Jews (of Middle Eastern origins) make up 65% of Israeli school enrollment but lag far behind Ashkenazi Jews (of European origins) in academic achievement and educational attainment. Reforms of the 1960s-70s, which focused on compensatory education to remedy "cultural disadvantage," reinforced ethnic underclass stereotypes,…

May 17, 2004 marked the 50th anniversary of the most significant school segregation case: "Brown v. Board of Education" (1954). While the Brown decision eliminated the legal theory of "separate but equal," the success of the "Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District et al". (1946) case helped boost public sentiment against segregation, setting…