This brief presents highlights from the recently enacted Education Amendments which include comprehensive higher education provisions, authorization for greatly increased funding, and limitations on court-ordered busing. The act also establishes within HEW a National Institute of Education, whose prime purpose is to find ways to make educational opportunity equal. The law includes a number of provisions regarding sex discrimination and minimum wage provisions. For example, coverage of the Equal Pay Act is extended, preschool employees are now under minimum wage and overtime and equal pay provisions, and no person, on the basis of sex, can be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. (Author/MLF)