This article discusses the practice of discrimination on the basis of ascribed characteristics such as race and sex. (PD)

Analyzes the reasons behind the failure of the educational system, including massive adult education programs, to reach and adequately serve the needs of the poor and disadvantaged. (AN)

The problem of school integration is discussed and synopses of the Coleman Report" and several other reports on this problem are given. (45 references) (NH)

After the 2000 presidential election during which George W. Bush erased the enormous advantage Democratic nominees had enjoyed on education by relentlessly decrying the "soft bigotry of low expectations," the president worked with Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.) and Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) to assemble a bill that ultimately…

The disproportionate representation of minority students in special education has long been recognised as a problem in the United States. It is, however, only with the 2004 authorisation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) that Congress has tried to prescribe a remedy for this. Beginning with a deconstruction of…

In this article the author discusses concepts of exclusion and inclusion and how important it is to understand exclusionary practices in the context and culture specificity of each region to attempt to remove barriers to inclusive education. She specifically discusses the low status given to girls and women in the Indian culture and how this…

Suggests that today's political climate fosters a meritocratic elite through the educational system in direct opposition to equity and justice. (JOW)

In March 2008, the California Postsecondary Education Commission raised the concern that the needs of students with disabilities, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) students have not been sufficiently addressed. While facing different issues, these groups constitute sizable proportions of the general population and of postsecondary…

The study presented in this article focuses on strategic planning in developing countries, drawing on the author's experiences in a dozen developing countries in Asia and Africa and focus groups in three of those countries: Afghanistan, Madagascar, and South Africa. It looks at the special challenges faced by planners in developing countries and…

The educational system, if sensitive to the needs of all groups, can enhance the freedom of all without settling for an arrangement whereby each group would become a separate world unto itself. (Author)

RESEARCH, DESIGNED TO STUDY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMED HUMAN RELATIONS TRAINING IN IMPROVING THE HUMAN RELATIONS SKILLS OF PRESERVICE TEACHERS AND TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF DOGMATISM ON THE LEARNING OF HUMAN RELATIONS SKILLS, IS PRESENTED. TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY PRESERVICE TEACHERS CONSTITUTED THE SUBJECTS. MATCHED STUDY GROUPS WERE TESTED BOTH…

This essay critiques the current ideal of education as set forth by R.S. Peters, among others. The paper proposes the view that masculinity and femininity involve choice of particular modes of being male and female, the possibilities of which education should not deny. (MT)

The Serrano case and its progeny do not represent a dramatic single event in the American experiment of free public education. Rather the case is one point in a confluence of sweeping forces in the civil rights evolution. (Author)