This study is based on the replies to a questionnaire sent in December 1968 to all Member States and Associate Members of UNESCO. It describes the extent and the consequences of illiteracy among women, and analyzes the factors impeding female literacy. The document shows the evolution of attitudes with respect to literacy programs for women; the…

Reviews United States Supreme Court decisions regarding the correction of racial and sexual discrimination. Concludes that individuals must make up their own minds concerning whether the Supreme Court has contradicted constitutional guarantees against racial discrimination represented by the fourteenth amendment in deciding its recent cases in…

Argues that the international struggle for power by the United States, as well as the apparent potential for independent political action by Blacks and Chicanos, affected Federal domestic policy regarding the education of Mexican Americans. (GC)

Argues that inequality in educational opportunity for the various social classes still persists in Sweden. (CMG)

Review of Death at an Early Age" by Jonathan Kozol for the purpose of illustration. (DB)

Discussed are what NAACP branches across the nation are doing to improve the quality of education received by Blacks and steps taken by the Reagan Administration which will widen the gap between Black and White educational attainment. (RM)

Argues that educational discourse styles are affected to an excessive degree by sexism. Suggests that the values underlying sexism are so deeply ingrained as to be difficult to detect. Concludes that academics, particularly those involved in the teaching and learning of language, must be responsive to feminist criticism of sexism. (SG)

Provides a survey instrument designed to gather data that assists in identifying educational barriers to handicapped persons. Notes that the survey identifies perceptions of educational services provided to handicapped persons by various educational agencies. (RS)

Criticizes an earlier article on nursing students with disabilities for eliminating perspectives of the disability community. Uses the social model rather than the medical model to interpret the earlier study's results as demonstrating negative behaviors and discriminatory practices toward students with disabilities. (SK)

The purpose of the report is to inform students, parents, school personnel, and officials of the legal issues related to harassment, bullying, and discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students. This report describes existing research on the current school climate for LGBT youth as well as the harmful effects of…

This article uses four data sets to assess changes in the relative weights of test- and performance-based merit criteria on college enrollment during the 1980s and 1990s and considers their significance for affirmative action. Our results support the "shifting meritocracy" hypothesis, revealed by selective postsecondary institutions'…

There is an unrecognised crisis in the education of pregnant schoolgirls and schoolgirl mothers. Girls leaving school due to pregnancy are not reported in official statistics. This has serious consequences in terms of resource allocation and planning of service provision. This article examines how girls are forced out of the mainstream education…

Compelling aspects I have noticed throughout my teaching life are the multitude of understandings boys have concerning themselves as readers. In this inquiry, as part of a larger year-long ethnographic study, I observed and analyzed how what counts as talk around text accomplishes curriculum mandates and achieves valuable social ends for one third…

It is suggested that the Supreme Court's resolution of the DeFunis case and a memorandum from Peter Holmes, director of the Civil Rights Office, could mark the beginning of an undeclared period of retrenchment in the areas of minority group rights. Effective strategies need to be formulated to develop a creative affirmative action policy and to…