Provides overview of laws, policies, and regulations available to women to secure their job rights when faced with sex discrimination. Equal pay, sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, and affirmative action are discussed, noting procedures involved in filing a complaint. (EJS)

Describes a project in which chemistry students search government publications for information on federal regulations of chemical substances. Project goals include developing an awareness of government regulations related to the practice of chemistry, use of documents containing regulations, and exploring library holdings of government…

Federal policy has been unsuccessful in achieving some of its goals for several reasons, including viewing implementation as an act rather than as a process and assuming that organizations have uniform capacity and willingness to implement policy. A strategy of differential treatment that matches implementing organizations' characteristics is…

Various strategies, used to promote equal access in the fields of elementary secondary education, higher education, and health care, are examined to assess their utility in elementary secondary education. (CJ)

Summarizes efforts to identify, acquire, and organize a standards collection, with emphasis on provision of information services to staff and clientele of the Forensic Engineering and Science Center, Triodyne, Inc., who provide expert testimony in court cases involving accidents caused by defective products and equipment failures. References are…

The Yeshiva decision and the General Counsel's guidelines in attempting to limit its applicability should force the kind of inquiry that the National Labor Relations Board avoided. However, this requires that college and university administrators review institutional structure, faculty unions, and faculty characteristics that might distinguish…

Argues that the primary difference between the federal role in education of the Reagan administration and that of its predecessors is one of form and of funding. Suggests that the federal presence in education will continue and that educators, as advocates, can influence the future. (Author/WD)

Energy education is a new field which should focus on an effort to bring together teachers, school officials, and parent groups with the objective of helping children understand the current international energy situation. Past, present, and future energy education strategies are discussed. (JN)

It is the health educator's responsibility to provide the consumer with information about toxic shock syndrome (TSS). An educational program should be developed which would encompass four areas: a description of TSS, an outline of theorized causes, a discussion of tampon health risks, and mechanisms for consumer action. (JN)

The author, a senator from Montana, sees hope for rural schooling in the changing federal role in education, as evidenced particularly by Public Law 96-354, the Regulatory Flexibility Act, which allows federal regulations to distinguish between urban and rural areas. Part of a theme issue on rural education. (SJL)

Higher education, it is suggested, should accept some federal cutbacks, but cuts that threaten research or push too many students away from careers with social responsibility do national harm. Leadership on campuses is needed to institute reforms where needed, and to encourage student's ethical sensitivity. (Author/MLW)

In the name of institutional autonomy and federal deregulation, sweeping changes in the enforcement of nondiscrimination and affirmative action requirements are being proposed. A new approach is offered: simplification of recordkeeping and abolition of most reporting requirements, an audit process, and vigorous enforcement of existing laws banning…

States that the indifference of public policy to human rights issues is illustrated by severe budget cuts in essential program areas such as the National Institute for Mental Health, the Legal Services Corporation, school lunches, social security, and education for the handicapped. Considers strategies for minimizing destructive effects of current…

Analyzes the historical realities behind the myth of America as a haven for refugees and the poor. The author argues that current proposals to control immigration (amnesty, guest workers, border control, repatriation, worker identification) are inadequate in the face of uncontrolled world population growth. (AM)

It is argued that the federal courts should recognize a qualified evidentiary privilege for universities that would require a trial court to balance the conflicting needs for confidentiality and disclosure before compelling discovery of sensitive university information. (Available from: University of California School of Law, Berkeley, CA) (MLW)