Traces the history of racial progress at the University of Texas School of Law from 1946, when an African American was denied admission, to events that led to improved access for minorities, to the case of Hopwood v. Texas, to the demise of affirmative action in Texas higher education. Emphasis is on changes in minority enrollments across those…

Argues that gender bias among referring agents is a major factor in the unequal distribution of males and females in learning disabilities programs. Discusses the role of male hyperactive or disruptive classroom behavior in the disproportionately large number of males referred to learning disabilities programs. (Author/CR)

Draws on interviews with local citizens, Hispanic former migrants, and school staff to examine problems and successes associated with Hispanic integration into the community and schools of Mill City, Oregon. Emphasizes the efforts of educators, parents, businesses, and citizens to provide equitable education through cultural awareness,…

Presents an overview of the working and social conditions for women in contemporary Russia. Massive lay-offs in industries that have traditionally employed women (chemical, machine-building, light industry) have weakened women's position in the labor market. Sexist hiring practices exacerbate this problem. Includes statistical and tabular data on…

Shares assignments developed and used by feminist science and teacher educators in undergraduate and graduate teacher-education classes. Focuses on students' reactions to these assignments. Contains 37 references. (DDR)

The teacher of a college seminar on education in contemporary American society, addressing sensitive personal and political concepts, used one-minute essays to "take the pulse" of the class daily. Daily summaries of essay content provided students with evidence of the teacher's commitment to monitoring the process, added a level of…

Argues that Aboriginal graduate students are creating a crisis for faculties of education. The knowledge needed to supervise them as they produce theses is not available. Expertise in Aboriginal educational issues, familiarity with literature, knowledge of Aboriginal languages, and understanding of the oral tradition are inadequate.…

Reviews the Henry Louis Gates Jr. memoir, "Colored People," and Julius Lester's novel of the civil rights movement, "And All Our Wounds Forgiven." Discovers a number of salient points concerning the black experience of integration in both books. Considers some of the interesting questions raised and their possible use in class…

Explores the relation between gender and pedagogy, examining the importance of gendered bodies in the construction of the great teacher as a cultural phenomenon. The paper discusses the gendering of the slippage between great and abusive pedagogy, investigating whether male diction must become malediction when women instigate powerful pedagogical…

This paper presents an autobiographical account of a course, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Elementary Classroom, with stories told by students in the class and by men from the film, "The Color of Fear." The paper focuses on how to use narrative to understand cultural diversity. (SM)

Three different differential item functioning (DIF) detection methods were used to examine the extent to which items in a mathematics performance assessment functioned differently for matched gender groups from a sample of 1,782 sixth and seventh graders. Implications of the finding that two items were potentially biased are discussed. (SLD)

Updates cases and issues previously discussed in this regular column on human rights in Canada, including racism and anti-Semitism, laws on hate crimes, hate sites on the World Wide Web, the use of the "free speech" defense by hate groups, and legal challenges to antiracist groups by individuals criticized by them. (DSK)

A survey of 10 national systems of higher education found that less than 10 percent of professors were women, and the proportion of female professors was negatively related to institutional prestige. This academic "glass ceiling" was related to women's shorter careers, tenure issues during hard times, and women's lower level of academic…

Addresses current literature on organizational change and leadership in the community college through a feminist perspective. Notes the ability of community colleges to serve as agents of change in improving women's conditions. Contains 31 references. (YKH)

An American Indian professor describes how he uses Western science metaphors in his freshman science writing course to help students realize that Western science is only one worldview based on cultural assumptions. Gradually, he introduces Native concepts of science including the interconnectedness of all things, responsibility to the community,…