Explores the racialized discourses surrounding basic writing students by using the notion of education as "white property." Shows how students are racialized as "minorities" despite the significant numbers of whites in the program. Argues open-admissions students are discursively coded as non-white. Contends that racialization…

Study of school choice in the Boulder Valley School District in Boulder, Colorado, finds increased stratification of schools according to race, ethnicity, and income created by open-enrollment procedures. Per-pupil costs and money raised through fund raising were higher in choice schools, as was student achievement. Recommends actions to limit the…

A trend is emerging to open enrollment for honors and AP classes to all students who wish to take them. Teachers of these open enrollment classes may be facing several dilemmas. How can the high standards and academic rigor of the course be maintained? How can students who struggle to learn be supported in their endeavors to keep up with the…

This article explores the literacy lives of students enrolled in English Composition courses at two open-admission universities in Central Appalachia and the complex role of immediate and extended family members as sponsors of literacy in these students' lives. Some relatives emerged as both sponsors and inhibitors-or perhaps more accurately,…

In the last century, public schools changed in ways that dramatically reduced the control that parents have over their local schools. Regaining that control is one key to improving the quality of our schools, and giving students a choice of schools is one way of increasing the influence that parents have over the way schools are run. Several…

The prediction that among male college students, the relationship between test anxiety and college achievement would be greater for socially mobile than for socially stable students is not borne out in this study at Lehman College. (Author/JH)

This profile is the second in a series documenting the experience with the uses of technology in higher education. A look at how the Open University employs media to serve a large, dispersed student body may benefit others who plan to expand or modify their own uses of educational technology. (Author)

The Thematic Studies Program (TSP), a successful open admissions plan for 125 students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, is characterized by a curriculum design interconnecting the humanities and social sciences, an emphasis on group process, and individualization of standards. A teacher in the program describes her experiences. (JT)

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEGROES IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE EXAMINED. RACIAL CONCENTRATIONS IN BOSTON'S SCHOOLS VARY WIDELY ACCORDING TO THE GRADE LEVEL OF THE PUPIL. THE VAST MAJORITY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS ATTENDED SCHOOLS THAT WERE MORE THAN 90 PERCENT WHITE IN ENROLLMENT. ONE POLICY OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE REGARDING…

The question of who should go to college cannot be answered without the issue of disestablishment. Too many people and students are frustrated and blocked because there is no other place to go but college, and the college or university itself is becoming a less inviting place as time goes on. True, some institutions have instituted a policy of…

This paper identifies some manifestations of "access" and also examines certain barriers to college admittance that have been significant in the past and, in certain instances, continue to the present. Accordingly, the first section traces the history of enrollment growth and notes that: (1) access to given institutions of higher education has…

Since 1917, the higher education system in the Soviet Union has been developing as a completely democratized system. All citizens have equal rights to education, and secondary and higher education are accessible to all citizens of the Soviet Union regardless of property, social status, nationality, sex, religion, or political convictions. Such…

This study was conducted to discover what attitudes are held by upper division students regarding an open admissions policy for entering freshmen when they themselves were admitted under rigorous standards. Five large institutions were used for the study: 2 CUNY schools that had recently adopted an open admissions policy; Central U., a residential…

The author reviews research evidence he considers pertinent to the selection of teacher education students and synthesizes the evidence into 11 criteria for selection. The areas of childhood development, adult learning, college influence on students, college student characteristics, and present selection practices are all explored. In particular,…