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)

While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion.…

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

This qualitative study compares and analyzes the social network experiences of two working-class Chinese students from immigrant families (Sally, Alex) to those of one working-class Latina student from an immigrant family (Elizabeth). Theory holds that these students would have difficulty obtaining educational resources and support (i.e., social…

The linkage between the impact of assessment and compliance with children's rights is a connection, which although seemingly obvious, is nonetheless rarely made, particularly by governments, which, as signatories to the relevant human rights treaties, have the primary responsibility for ensuring that educational practice is compatible with…

While the research, theory and policy literature on race, class and gender discrimination in education is extensive, the problem of education-based discrimination itself has been widely overlooked. Indeed, the dominant ideologies of meritocracy and human capital (into which we are inculcated throughout our lives by schools, media and the state)…

In this article we describe the use of a weblog (blog) project that was incorporated into an undergraduate preservice teacher education course that addressed diversity and multicultural education. To explore the efficacy of the project, we analyzed its implementation using an action research framework. We found that the project increased the…

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)