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Rossell, Christine H. – 1975
The impact of school desegregation policy on community voting patterns and white flight in northern school districts is analyzed. Both voting behavior and white flight are considered two indicators of the success of school desegregation in achieving community social integration. School board elections, school tax referenda voting trends, and…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Desegregation Effects, Elections, Integration Studies
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, Nashville.
This document is considered to be both a report on the progress in achieving additional desegregation in the public colleges and universities in Tennessee, as well as a report on the ability of the public institutions to achieve specific minority enrollment and employment goals which differ from, but are more ambitious than the goals in the…
Descriptors: College Desegregation, Data Collection, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Caldwell, John J. – Canadian Journal of English Language Arts, 1988
Presents and assesses a program to improve historical knowledge and relationships of junior high students through a language arts program based on children's historical fiction. (SD)
Descriptors: Activity Units, Creative Teaching, Discovery Learning, Fiction
Roberson, Donald N., Jr. – 2002
N.F.S. Grundtvig was a priest, historian, poet, and founder of the Danish Folk High School. He believed that education for adults should be geared to adults and wanted schools to be independent of the church. Grundtvig was among the first to call for Denmark's schools to use the native Danish language. Grundtvig believed that each group or culture…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Democracy, Educational History
Research Connections in Special Education, 2003
This issue presents two articles on the use of data to improve results for students with disabilities. The first paper examines how researchers supported by the Office of Special Education Programs are discovering innovative uses of scientifically derived information in instructional and administrative decision making as well as strategies for…
Descriptors: Action Research, Change Strategies, Curriculum Based Assessment, Data Collection
Murphy, Mark – 2001
Adult education theory and practice has long been involved in identifying spaces where counter-hegemonic learning can take place. Civil society is regarded as the site par-excellence for providing space in which to learn free from power and domination and from the state and economy. Another dimension to the recent focus on civil society as a site…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Community Education
Masursky, Danielle – Online Submission, 2000
Attrition is a consistent feature of higher education--only about half the students who start college will ever receive a degree. The attrition rates of African-American students is even higher than that of their white counterparts. Attrition in general, and especially that of high risk students, is of great concern to university administrators…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, School Holding Power, African American Students, Higher Education

Queen, Edward L., II – Religious Education, 1996
Provides a brief historical overview regarding the development of a religious identity. Explicates a number of questions that both guide and complicate this effort in modern times. Argues that traditional texts should be evaluated more in terms of their positive contributions than their dated elements. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Catholics, Continuing Education, Cultural Interrelationships

Mann, Barbara A.; Moser, Rita M. – New Directions for Student Services, 1991
Presents a theoretical framework suggesting ways to design peer intervention programs and group existing programs. Suggests criteria for effective racial awareness programs, discussing examples of successful college prejudice activities. Notes diversity education efforts are most successful when based on a theoretical model that recognizes the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Campuses, College Environment, College Students

Modell, John; Alexander, J. Trent – History of Education Quarterly, 1997
Places the changing expectations and experiences of student life in a 1939 Abilene, Kansas, high school within the context of general institutional changes occurring at high schools. Maintains that schools reproduced the existing social structure through a variety of mechanisms. Notes the differences of expectations between male and female…
Descriptors: American Dream, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Sociology

Parker, Walter C. – Social Studies, 1997
Argues that the United States always has possessed a unified political culture (representative democracy defined by compromise and consensus) and a fragmented ethnic and social culture. Claims that concerns about the divisive effect of multicultural education confuse the two realms. Suggests some curriculum topics that address both ideas. (MJP)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Cultural Influences, Cultural Pluralism

Kaltsounis, Theodore – Social Studies, 1997
Maintains that there are definite and divisive tensions between multicultural education and citizenship education. Identifies various positions, philosophical backgrounds, and political proponents of these two camps. Recommends using both pedagogies to create a sense of community. (MJP)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism

Banks, Dennis – Social Education, 1997
Maintains that in the face of today's largely negative debate over immigration, reading fiction about immigrants can provide students with historical background, empathy, and an understanding of different perspectives. Notes that people's reasons for wanting to come to the United States remain fairly constant. Includes a five-item annotated…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Ethnic Discrimination, Immigrants

Griffiths, Morwenna; Davies, Carol – British Educational Research Journal, 1993
Reports on an action research study on improving equality of opportunity for students in a socially and racially mixed classroom. Finds that students were empowered by their involvement setting up and drawing conclusions from the study. Questions the extent to which research should focus on race, social class, or gender. (CFR)
Descriptors: Action Research, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Differences

Blaye, Agnes; And Others – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1992
Reviews research on interactive computer learning. Examines the extent to which learner-computer interaction and learner-learner interaction can interfere with or support one another. Finds that viewing collaborative learning as joint negotiation of a common problem helps to define optimal characteristics of educational software. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation