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Mann, Donald – USA Today, 1984
Unemployment in the United States can only be made worse by continued high levels of legal immigration. Especially serious is the threat from Latin America. We must help developing countries halt their population growth and impose a ceiling of 100,000 a year for total immigration to the United States. (RM)
Descriptors: Current Events, Developing Nations, Immigrants, Latin American Culture
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Mahle, Benj – English Journal, 1985
Reviews Elie Wiesel's "Night," an account of his Holocaust experiences. Concludes that what is important is not that students' questions be answered, but that people continue to ask them. (EL)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Political Attitudes
Blakers, C. – Youth Studies Bulletin, 1985
This article discusses the close links that have traditionally existed between schooling, occupation, and place in society. It argues that community expectations of schooling assume this close relationship as a primary purpose of schooling. Questions are raised about the purposes of schooling and whether its design is adequate to meet changing…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Educational Quality
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Litwin, James L. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1985
Racial and sexual stereotyping and harassment persist on today's campus, and second generation reforms and changes must be made. Public research on racism and sexism seems to have been done mostly by academic and not by institutional researchers. Some reasons for this are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Campuses, Change, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
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Wakefield, Rowan; And Others – Futurist, 1984
Major long-term issues that will have to be addressed by the president and Congress are discussed. These include the changing American family, America's growing international debt, changing trends in agribusiness, industrial policy, and nuclear weapons and strategic deterrence. (RM)
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Disarmament, Economics, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1984
Provides a summary of discussion at an international conference of human rights professionsls in 1982. Covers a wide range of subjects, from women's access to positions of economic power, to day care facilities as a means of expanding choices of both women and men who work in or out of the home. (KH)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Feminism, Foreign Countries
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Buxton, Thomas H.; And Others – Integrated Education, 1983
Reports on a study of private and public school teachers' perceptions of the relative importance of ten major social problems. Concludes that public school faculties exhibit a greater concern for the spirit of the law concerning the realization of human rights than is discernible in private academies. (Author/KH)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Elementary Secondary Education, Political Attitudes, Private Schools
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Evans, Peter – English Quarterly, 1984
A response to the Minister of Education's announcement of provincewide testing in English and mathematics and a look at the tests thay may be used. (CRH)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Culler, Jonathan – ADE Bulletin, 1985
Calls for a rethinking of the literary canon and a reflection on the order of culture's discourses and the relations among them. (CRH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Philosophy, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Sledge, Linda Ching – ADE Bulletin, 1985
Briefly examines some of the historical and cultural backgrounds from which Asian-American literature arises. (CRH)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Autobiographies, Biographies, English Instruction
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Metha, Arlene; Rothschild, Mary Aickin – English Journal, 1985
Describes how the lessons from academic and higher education have taught that women need to work closely with schools to incorporate women's studies into the curriculum. (CRH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Philosophy, Feminism
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Vandamme, Francois – International Labour Review, 1984
The tasks of the European Social Fund, the European Economic Community's social policy instrument, were reviewed in l983 in the light of the worsening unemployment situation and the priority placed on employment and vocational training policies. (Author/SSH)
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Labor Economics, Labor Force Development, Labor Market
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Mahle, Benjamin – English Journal, 1983
Argues that Richard Wright's "Black Boy" is appropriate for ninth-grade students because it combines an exciting story of survival with effective prose, forces readers to try to understand their own experiences in the light of the protagonist's, and intimately involves students in such universal concerns as suffering, violence, and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 9, Literature Appreciation, Novels
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Altenbaugh, Richard J. – History of Education Quarterly, 1983
Workers' social and educational experiences during the early twentieth century led to a perceived need for their own schools. Ideological origins of the labor colleges are enumerated, the objectives and programs of one labor college, Brookwood, are examined, and contributions of labor colleges to the American labor movement are analyzed. (RM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
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Keeley, Michael – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1984
Following a summary of traditional views on organizational effectiveness, the author describes relativistic, developmental, power, and social justice approaches that appeal to the various interests of organizational participants or constituents. Affirming the advantages of social justice based theories, the article then proposes an alternative…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Interests, Justice
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