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 disproportionate representation of minority students in special education has long been recognised as a problem in the United States. It is, however, only with the 2004 authorisation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) that Congress has tried to prescribe a remedy for this. Beginning with a deconstruction of…

After the 2000 presidential election during which George W. Bush erased the enormous advantage Democratic nominees had enjoyed on education by relentlessly decrying the "soft bigotry of low expectations," the president worked with Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.) and Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) to assemble a bill that ultimately…

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…

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…