Court decisions relating to bilingual education in the United States are synthesized and analyzed. In addition to cases relating specifically to language of instruction, those dealing with desegregation and racial or ethnic discrimination are reviewed. In decisions involving the teaching of foreign languages in elementary school, during the period…

Proceedings of the symposium on Implications for Minority Groups of the Movement Toward Minimum-Competency Testing (MCT) include the following papers: (1) "Implications of Minimum-Competency Testing for Minority Students" by A. Graham Down, who asserts that MCT offers more hope than any development in public school policy since 1954 for…

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court remanded Keyes v Denver to the district court for further proceedings. In past hearings, the court had concluded that minority populations in Denver were receiving an inferior instructional program in violation of constitutional and legal rights. After remand from the Supreme Court, the court requested assistance in…

The cultural hijackee syndrome occurs when Mexican Americans interact with the dominant culture over extended periods of time. This syndrome is basically a survival mechanism in which threat and fear are the main elements, and identification with the aggressor and his cause are the attitudinal and behavioral results. (Author/NQ)

The objectives of excellence and equity in minority teacher education are discussed in terms of recent social realignment. It is argued that, because most institutionalized discrimination has been eliminated, perpetuation of multiple sets of requirements for teacher candidates is not needed. (MT)

This transcription of a lecture delivered by Rod Paige provides a discussion of the future plans for American education. After an introduction by Phillip N. Truluck, Executive Vice President of the Heritage Foundation, Paige uses the following topic headings to direct his talk: (1) The Education Revolution; (2) Improving Accountability and…

Article discusses the need to reconsider the female role as student and as educational leader in order to enhance her participation as a complete citizen. (RK)

The black university is a source for black leadership and scholarship and for the political articulation of black interests.'' (Author)

The present paper called attention to the difference between discrimination among individuals and discrimination among groups and suggested that the intraclass correlation coefficient should be used in the process of item selection whenever one is interested in discrimination among groups. (Author)

Discusses how public education fails chicano students' needs. (PG)

State aid equalization arrangements fail to alleviate discrimination against lower socioeconomic status children, and merely reinforce the unequal delivery of school services. (RA)

Describes the efforts of Thomas Hocutt, a Black student, to gain admittance to the University of North Carolina in 1933. The case was lost, but it laid the basis for outlawing racial segregation in public schools through Brown v Board of Education (1954). (CMG)

Suggests that at small and medium-sized colleges, faculty members (particularly those in Black Studies) can help to protect educational opportunities for athletes if they gain the confidence of the athletes themselves and the ear of sympathetic administrators. Describes different strategies toward the same end which are necessary in large…

The history of the social, legal, and educational aspects of equal opportunity and equal results are outlined, and the rift between the two principles is described. Equal opportunity laws work, especially when enforced expeditiously, and are supported by most Americans. Equal results laws are a failure and counterproductive. (Author/AL)

Holds that the "Bakke" decision simply reaffirmed an insufficient commitment to equal opportunities for Blacks in higher education. Reviews several studies, including research conducted at the Institute for the Study of Educational Policy (ISEP) that has focused on the social and economic context of educational discrimination. (GC)