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Liggett, Twila Christensen; And Others – 1979
This resource book provides curriculum materials for increasing awareness of sex bias and promoting more positive attitudes and participation in sex-fair career education and counseling. The book provides information in four parts for facilitators (teachers, counselors, administrators, or parents) and learners (students, parents, school staff…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Counseling
Women's Educational Equity Communications Network, San Francisco, CA. – 1979
This compilation of over 2,000 document resumes contains abstracts or annotations of materials relevant to women's educational equity which were entered into computerized data bases from January 1975 through December 1976. Covering material produced from about 1973 to 1976, the citations relate to one of six subject categories which were the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Affirmative Action, Career Choice, Career Development
HANNAH, JOHN A.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE FINDINGS OF A STUDY OF RACIAL ISOLATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE DISCUSSED. THE STUDY FOCUSED ON (1) THE EXTENT OF RACIAL SEGREGATION IN THE SCHOOLS AND THE DISPARITY BETWEEN THE EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT OF NEGRO AND WHITE SCHOOL CHILDREN, (2) FACTORS WHICH INTENSIFY AND PERPETUATE SEGREGATION, (3) THE EFFECTS OF SEGREGATED SCHOOLING ON…
Descriptors: Achievement, Blacks, Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation
Noel, Dorothy Elizabeth – 1978
The primary objective of the largely exploratory study was an empirical examination of familial socialization practices and their influence on ambition (measured as education and occupational expectations) of black and white males and females. Existing generalizations about career expectations were extended by establishing comparisons on the basis…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Aspiration, Birth Order
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (DOC), Rockville, MD. – 1979
This booklet contains selected background materials, biographical information, anecdotes, and statements documenting contributions made by blacks to American history. Objectives are to call attention to information about blacks which has been systematically excluded from United States history books and to help people understand the life, heritage,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Bias, Biographical Inventories, Black History
Kvaraceus, William C. – 1968
An attempt to provide college professors more contact with the classroom situations that their students will face as teachers is reported in this edited account of the experiences of 13 professors in a pilot study which was aimed at teaching the disadvantaged (reluctant learners). Included in the first sections are brief descriptions of the…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Classroom Environment, College Faculty, Course Objectives
Padilla, Eligio R., Ed.; Padilla, Amado M., Ed. – 1977
Presenting multi-ethnic views about the delivery of mental health services to the Hispanic population, this monograph contains 18 papers presented at the joint meeting of the Puerto Rican Medical Association's Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery Section, the Caribbean Psychiatric Association, and the American Psychiatric Association held in May…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Bias, Bilingualism, Blacks
Pawlitschek, Elizabeth Ann – 1976
The number of women in educational administration is declining, despite official efforts to end sex discrimination. Women are hampered on the way to obtaining an adequate education, finding roadblocks from sex bias in elementary readers to discrimination in graduate programs; are considered responsible for home and children even when working full…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection
Nelson, Murry R.; Singleton, H. Wells – 1978
Governmental interference with academic freedom is illustrated by F.B.I. surveillance of and unauthorized distribution of information about progressive educators John Dewey, George Counts, and Harold Rugg. These three educators attracted the attention of governmental agencies and special interest groups during the 1930s and 1940s because they…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Bias, Civil Liberties, Communism
Racism and Sexism Resource Center for Educators, New York, NY. – 1977
Native people always wear feathers or headdresses; they frequently brandish tomahawks; they live in tipis; the women usually have babies on their backs; the men are fierce and violent; they lurk behind trees; they spend much time dancing on one leg; and their existence is dependent on the proximity of cowboys. They are not men, women and children,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Attitudes, Books, Childhood Attitudes
Freeberg, Norman E. – 1968
This study represents an initial phase in the development and application of a battery of measures for research and evaluation with disadvantaged adolescents in a youth-work training program. The paper-and-pencil instruments devised attempt to compensate for deficiencies in currently available tests by shaping content, format and administration to…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Attitudes
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New York, NY. – 1976
The concern with the negative impact on blacks of the national trend toward assessing aptitude achievement and intelligence almost solely through test instruction whose validity and/or administration method is often suspect is reflected in this document. It reports the conference proceedings of the National Association for the Advancement of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Conference Reports, Criterion Referenced Tests, Culture Fair Tests
Foley, Douglas E.; And Others – 1977
Focusing on how "North Town" Anglos and Mexicanos have related to each other and have dealt with the proplems of economic inequality and racial discrimination, the study characterized the ethnic relations into three major historical periods: the "Rancho" Era (1900-30), the "Colonia" Era (1930-60), and the Contemporary…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attitude Change, Community Study, Cultural Background
Yeakey, Carol Camp, Ed.; Henderson, Ronald D., Ed. – 2003
This volume includes the first 15 papers in a 32-paper collection. After a prologue by Mkhululi David Graham Du Bois entitled "Seeking Truth in Research", the papers are: (1) "`Knowledge is Light, Knowledge is Power': African American Education in Antebellum America" (Christopher M. Span); (2) "Curriculum, Culture, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Child Welfare, Culturally Relevant Education
Ashcroft, Kate; Bigger, Stephen; Coates, David – 1996
This book examines issues in studying equal opportunity in colleges and universities, especially those in the United Kingdom, and methods for conducting research into equal opportunity issues. It is intended to provide a framework of ideas and starting points for research. Most of the techniques suggested are forms of participant research on a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Action Research, Affirmative Action, College Admission