(1981). Health Education Resource Guide, Junior High. As part of a health education program for K-12, this curriculum guide for grade eight provides: (1) a short overview of health education; (2) a scope and sequence chart which lists specific topics to teach on mental health, physical health, community health, and safety that are appropriate at different grade levels; (3) a list of objectives; and (4) sample learning activities and accompanying learning resources for each objective. Since health education is influenced greatly by individual value systems, activities are not designed to teach right or wrong but to encourage students to examine issues from different perspectives and then to form their own opinions. Activities involve a variety of teaching techniques including reading, discussion, guest speakers, audiovisual aids, worksheets, games, writing, and demonstrations. Some topics covered are the human body; alcohol, drug and tobacco; communicable diseases; first aid; nutrition; mental health; family life–heredity, growth and…

Kerr, Clark, Ed.; Rosow, Jerome M., Ed. (1979). Work in America: The Decade Ahead. Work in America Institute Series. The results of three national symposia held in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco by the Work in America Institute involving more than 300 leaders from industry, qovernment, labor, communications, and education are summarized in this volume dealing with the work force of the future and the emerging work environment. Changes reported that affect work in America include affirmative action legislation, a declining birth rate, retirement-at-70 laws, and early retirement options. Issues responding to the changes discussed are shorter or compressed work weeks, work-at-home jobs (with your own computer terminal), flexitime, employee civil rights, and worker participation in management. Focus is on five fundamental issues: (1) the quality of working life; (2) productivity, emphasizing the human factors in the productivity equation; (3) education and the world of work; (4) employee-management cooperation; and (5) national labor force policy, examining policies of the United States and…

Stoll, Jennifer (2012). Information Sharing in a Nonprofit Network. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology. The civil rights and other social justice movements, neighborhood watches, local garden cooperatives, and so forth are examples of a grassroots context that is largely understudied in CSCW. In recent history, movements to fight child sex trafficking, end hunger in New York City, advocate for financial reform, or even overthrow governments have illuminated a context of grassroots coordination that is a significant departure from the focus of prior research. In contrast to traditional CSCW research contexts, grassroots movements tend to emerge from the local community rather than the corporate. In this context, the information and communications technologies (ICTs) tend to be consumer-grade off-the-shelf tools often administered and supported by a volunteer cadre of varying skill, ability, and availability. But while we see that informally organized, grassroots groups have shown considerable interest in ICTs, the actual effectiveness of ICTs for these groups remains largely unknown…. [Direct]

Lay, Nancy (1993). Sport and Religion: An Unholy Alliance. This paper points out the affinity of two basic elements of human existence–religion and sport–and then attempts to explain why they should be separate. It addresses the nature of religion, religion in America, the nature of sport, sport as religion, and reasons for the incompatibility of sport and religion. Similarities between sport and religion are listed, and the writings of several authors whose athletic experiences have had religious overtones are cited. Reasons for the incompatibility of sport and religion are then presented, including: (1) the essence of religion is selflessness and the essence of sport is selfishness; (2) treating God as some kind of supercoach demeans both religion and sport; (3) many athletes are practicing magic rather than religion; (4) athletes on praying teams are pressured to conform to team behavior, thus violating their religious freedom; and (5) some religious organizations for athletes represent the religious right, which often fosters… [PDF]

(1984). Discipline in the Public Schools: Educator Responses to the Reagan Administration Policies. ERS School Research Forum, Apr. Included in this report is the complete text of the Cabinet Council on Human Resources (CCHR) memorandum entitled "Disorder in Our Public Schools," also known as the Bauer Report. The memorandum argues that the quality of public education in the United States is threatened by pervasive disorder in the schools. It also claims that school disorder is among the most significant and overlooked civil rights issues of the 1980's. Included with the memorandum are three recent remarks on discipline in public schools by President Reagan. In part II seven educators respond to the Bauer Report. They criticize the memorandum for being inflammatory, misusing dated data, and misleading the American public about the extent of student discipline problems. These educators point out that the real problem in the schools is not dramatic crime but ordinary routine student misbehavior. The critics also feel the report contains misjudged criticisms of school administrators. (MD)…

(1977). The Urban Crisis Forum Reports. This document consists of five reports on forums held in the spring of 1977 on social and educational problems in New York City. Topics of discussion included: (1) what is right and wrong with our public and private secondary educational system in New York City; (2) fiscal resources and New York City's capacity to provide necessary human services to the poor, minorities, and other citizens of the city; (3) the urban crisis (crime); (4) the public school system and the poor of New York City; and (5) the crisis in education. At each forum a number of panelists, both clergy and lay persons, spoke about their areas of experience in public and parochial education and the social services, particularly among the poor people of the city. Their discussion on crucial social problems and recommendations for ways the government and the schools could address these problems are summarized in the reports. (Author/GC)…

Shook, Ronald (1981). The Two Brains and the Education Process. The human brain is lateralized, different functions being housed in each hemisphere. Several assumptions which are mistakenly considered fact by researchers include: (1) the left hemisphere is for rational functions, while the right is for intuitive functions; (2) the hemispheres do not interact as well with each other as they should; (3) the use of one hemisphere tends to depress the use of the other until one can become dominant; and (4) hemispheric dominance is probably a cultural phenomenon. Evidence has shown that measures used for assessing dominance and the assumptions they fostered, are suspect. The two-brain theory is of little importance in educational planning. Much concern for educating both sides of the brain is based on the supposition that one hemisphere could languish in ignorance while the other was enlightened. This is a naive supposition; lateralization is part of a complex interweaving of processes. Neurological research may have a profound effect on education in… [PDF]

Tyler, Leona E. (1979). Implications of Multiplicity. The implications of a developing theory about human posibilities for the conduct of individual life and the future of society rest on the basic fact that, because only a fraction of the possibilities the future holds can be actualized by an individual or by society, choice is a universal imperative. One important reason that better choices are not made is that many of the alternatives are not perceived. Some suggestions about widening the range of perceived possibilities are identifiable from research on creativity, especially the study of divergent thinking. Counselors endeavoring to help clients and individuals seeking to improve their self-management skills can use a delaying strategy to allow more alternatives to become visible. Especially with regard to moral choices, current times call for the recognition of multiple action possibilities rather than simple right versus wrong decisions. The flourishing new field of futuristics is generating new techniques for the generation of…

(1965). An In-Service Program to Assist the Henderson City and Henderson County School Systems in Achieving Successful Total Desegregation. This report is a result of a four week In-Service Training Program conducted by the Henderson County-Henderson City School Systems to assist in achieving successful total desegregation under the provisions of Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This program was designed to assist in solving the special educational problems for the 1965-66 school year which are occasioned by complete desegregation of the faculty, staff, and students. The primary purpose of the program reported was to effect smooth transition and assimilation of teachers and students who have not yet been integrated in the two systems. The training program attempted to achieve greater understanding, improve communication, and make more effective human relations within the various working groups by identifying special educational problems arising as a result of total behavior patterns and attitudes of the disadvantaged child. [Not available in hard copy due to marginal legibility of original document.] (JM)… [PDF]

Aeschliman, M. D. (2005). Enduring Documents and Public Doctrines: Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" after Forty Years. Journal of Education, v186 n1 p29-46. In the century just past, the immense ethical and political destructiveness of intellectuals was so frequent and protean in form that intellectual historians have a story as complex as it is tragic to tell, and one that many of them do not relish, perhaps out of occupational solidarity or shame. The "treason of the intellectuals," to use Julien Benda's 1927 phrase, is a great but dismal and continuing chapter in the history of human fecklessness, folly, vanity, and will to power, not only on the "Left" and the "Right" but also among apparently detached, dispassionate "scientific intellectuals," who often proudly prescind from "values" altogether not only in research but in discussion of the wider realms of life itself. In this article, the author talks about public doctrines from several philosophers including Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." (Contains 35 endnotes.)… [Direct]

Bosbach, Simone; Kerzel, Dirk; Prinz, Wolfgang (2004). A Simon Effect With Stationary Moving Stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v30 n1 p39-55 Feb. To clarify whether motion information per se has a separable influence on action control, the authors investigated whether irrelevant direction of motion of stimuli whose overall position was constant over time would affect manual left-right responses (i.e., reveal a motion-based Simon effect). In Experiments 1 and 2, significant Simon effects were obtained for sine-wave gratings moving in a stationary Gaussian window. In Experiment 3, a direction-based Simon effect with random-dot patterns was replicated, except that the perceived direction of motion was based on the displacement of single elements. Experiments 4 and 5 studied motion-based Simon effects to point-light figures that walked in place–displays requiring high-level analysis of global shape and local motion. Motion-based Simon effects occurred when the displays could be interpreted as an upright human walker, showing that a high-level representation of motion direction mediated the effects. Thus, the present study… [Direct]

Brooks, Vernon Augustus (2005). No Hard Feelings: Finding The Focus in A Teacher-Student Function. High School Journal, v89 n1 p54-56 Oct-Nov. The learning process is forever riddled with controversies. Principal among them is that many students leave the classroom with the feeling that the odds are stocked against them, or that teachers bear grudges that are often used to malign their work or progress. But if the main focus in this teacher-student function is to make students realize their educational potential, then teachers ought to be mindful to send the right signal, and not to allow their proteges to leave with the wrong impression. But because teachers are still human beings and are therefore not infallible, it is best to adhere to certain professional guidelines in order to avoid many relationship pitfalls. A reference to guidelines is by no means trifling because those are what help to determine the pillars of the institution of education. Here, the author addresses a few major rules that can help teachers strike an unequivocally productive balance with their students…. [Direct]

(1990). Development Goals and Strategies for Children in the 1990s. A UNICEF Policy Review. Executive Board Decision 1990-2. This document presents proposals for goals and strategies for children and development in the 1990s that were approved by the UNICEF Executive Board in April, 1990. The paper proposes that developing human capabilities and meeting basic human needs should be the focus of the UNICEF contribution to the fourth United Nations developmental decade. Within this framework, priority for UNICEF action must be set as part of the country program approach and enriched by the global vision of goals and strategies for child survival, development, and protection by the year 2000. Chapters I and II present background information and a review of the first, second, and third United Nations development decades respectively. Chapter III provides a statistical analysis of the unmet needs and unfulfilled rights of children. The unprecedented opportunities for substantial gains in the well-being of children brought about by today's technologies and the revolution in communication are summarized in…

Oaxaca, Ronald L. (1978). On the Use of Occupational Statistics. Although government social and economic policy, where women and minorities are concerned, is largely focused on income and earnings, specific types of data on the occupational affiliation of women would be useful for research. It is necessary to have a theoretical frame of reference in order to ask the right questions about women's occupational affiliation. Very little is known about the technological conditions governing the formation of skills on the job, and much more needs to be known about occupational choice and mobility. As a step toward asking the right questions, a simple framework has been developed which links together occupational affiliation, human capital formation, and wage rates. It affords a means of discussing both theoretical and empirical issues that relate to the occupational attachments of women. Data limitations can be found at both the macroeconomic and microeconomic levels of analysis. For the purposes of understanding and predicting changes in occupational…

Ingersoll, Tom; Laichas, Tom (1991). Congress Debates Slavery, 1790-1800: A Unit of Study for Grades 10-12. This unit is one of a series that represents specific moments in history from which students focus on the meanings of landmark events. By studying primary sources of a crucial turning point in history, students become aware that choices had to be made by real human beings, that those decisions were the result of specific factors, and that they set in motion a series of historical consequences. The First Amendment guarantees each citizen's right "to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Within months after Congress sent the Bill of Rights to the states for ratification in 1789, antislavery forces took full advantage of this fundamental liberty. By doing so, they provoked Congressional debates so stormy that within 18 months of the Constitution's ratification the House of Representatives already rang with the dire threat of civil war. The United States was born with the problem of conflicting sectional interests, and this unit is designed to reveal that the…

Scott, John A., Ed.; Seidman, Laurence I., Ed. (1987). Folksong in the Classroom. Volume VII. 1986-87. Folksong in the Classroom, v6 n1-3 1986-87. Celebrating the strength of the land is the goal of this volume containing songs, bibliographies, teaching ideas, book and song reviews, and indexes for free materials. The first issue containing songs about the U.S. Constitution illuminates the vision of freedom, and the struggle for it. Visualizing the spirit of the Constitution and explaining the concept of rights and the ongoing struggle to defend them are ways that the people's songs may be most meaningfully used. Issue numbers Two and Three contain the great river songs that illustrate the diverse ways in which rivers contributed to the growth of the country. Every aspect of teaching can be made more vital by studying the history of rivers. The second issue emphasizes economic life, transportation, the historical approach, exploration, settlement and urbanization, politics and Native Americans. The third issue explores ecology, natural resources, wildlife and science, aesthetics, recreation, literature, folklore and the arts,…

(1986). Technical Committees: From Concept to Action. This informational booklet discusses the history and concept of technical committees in vocational education and some critical elements of their operation. The first part considers the legislative provision and substantive implications that flow from it. The function and establishment of committees, determination of which occupational areas should have a committee, and significant characteristics of technical committees are addressed. The second part describes potential benefits of such committees. Six specific benefits to the vocational system are discussed: creation of understanding and commitment to vocational education, provision of a viable forum for exchanging ideas affecting human resource development, confirmation or validation of existing skill inventories, development of a network, relationship to local craft councils, and application of technical committees to other sections of the Perkins Act. The final part of the publication focuses on business participation. It…

(1983). An Advocacy Curriculum (9-12) for Total Career Development and Independent Living Skills for Handicapped Students. Final Report and Curriculum. This final report summarizes a three-year project to develop and field test an advocacy curriculum designed to teach secondary-level disabled students (mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, physically disabled, visually and hearing impaired) their rights and responsibilities under recent legislation, the various service systems they will need to use, and how to gain access to them. Contents include methods and procedures (broken down by project year and including a summary of project objectives and accomplishments), results of the field test, and conclusions. Among appendices are needs assessment survey forms and results, a sample inservice training workshop agenda, a field test plan, and evaluation procedures. Included as the final appendix is the 356-page advocacy curriculum or trainer's guide, which includes general guidance as well as eight instructional units: advocacy in the life functioning systems (an introduction and overview), application of advocacy… [PDF]

Anderson, Owanah P., Comp.; Verble, Sedelta D., Comp. (1981). Resource Guide of American Indian and Alaska Native Women, 1980. A resource listing of 678 prominent American Indian and Alaska Native women representing 159 tribes throughout the United States provides the following information: name, address, date and place of birth, tribal membership, field of interest, current occupation, Indian activities, women's advocacy, educational background and professional interest. The following are the majority of professional and advocacy skills the women possess: administration (federal, tribal and urban), cultural advocacy and arts (arts and humanities, traditional arts and crafts), economic development (program planning/management), education (adult/vocational, bilingual, curriculum development, early childhood, educational equity, higher education, Native American studies, teacher training, tribal education), employment (affirmative action/EEO, women's employment advocacy), health (administration, alcohol/drug abuse, Indian health advocacy), legal advocacy (legislative change/testify/lobby, treaty rights/legal… [PDF]

ALI KHAN, ANSAR (1966). SPECIAL PROBLEMS REPORT, ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR RURAL POPULATION IN PAKISTAN AND SUGGESTIONS FOR THEIR IMPROVEMENT. THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE NEED FOR FUNCTIONAL, SEQUENTIAL PROGRAMS OF LITERACY, VOCATIONAL, LIBERAL, POLITICAL, AND HUMAN RELATIONS EDUCATION IN RURAL AREAS OF PAKISTAN. PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES ARE SEEN IN THE OCCUPATIONAL CASTE SYSTEM, FAMILY STRUCTURES, ATTITUDES TOWARD THE EDUCATION OF BOYS AND GIRLS, POOR MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION, POLITICAL AND LANGUAGE BARRIERS, THE RECRUITING OF TEACHERS, THE NEED FOR YOUTH CLUBS, AND CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RURAL MASSES. UNSUCCESSFUL EARLY VENTURES AND REVIEWED AND NOTEWORTHY PROGRAMS SINCE 1947 ARE DESCRIBED–(1) VILLAGE AID PROGRAMS OF AUDIOVISUAL TRAINING, RURAL ADULT EDUCATION, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, (2) SALINITY CONTROL AND RECLAMATION PROJECT NUMBER 1, COMBINING LOCAL EFFORTS WITH UNITED STATES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND (3) WEST PAKISTAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY LITERACY CLASSES FOR ITS EMPLOYEES, TUTORING OF FARMERS BY ITS EXTENSION EDUCATION TRAINEES, AND RELATED PROGRAMS. RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MADE ON EQUAL…

Stone, Chuck (1971). The Psychology of Whiteness vs. the Politics of Blackness: An Educational Power Struggle. During an interview (Playboy magazine, April, 1971), actor John Wayne expressed certain educational theories and attitudes concerning American minority groups. His outlook is an authentic summary of the intellectual convictions of the vast majority of white Americans today. This \psychology of whiteness\ is the academic explanation for the concept of racism. Scholars have historically amassed data which supported the concept of racial inequality. The black community has developed a massive disenchantment with integration, and has begun to move toward the \politics of blackness,\ which is not racist but affirms the right to survive. The racist term \disadvantaged\ should be replaced by the term \disequalized\ which more accurately reflects the condition of oppressed minority groups. There are other educational and psychological concepts which are equally demeaning and inaccurate, including many concepts in intelligence testing. Educational accountability will help to change some of… [PDF]

Anderson, Lynda, Ed.; Lakin, Charlie, Ed.; Mandeville, Howard, Ed. (1998). Supporting Parents Who Have Cognitive Limitations. Impact, v11 n1 Spr. This feature issue focuses on strategies to support parents who have cognitive limitations to be successful in raising their children. Articles include: (1) \Encounters with Entropy: Marge's Journey from System to System\ (John Franz and Pat Miles) that tells a fictional story of a mother with disabilities to illustrate the tendency of human service systems to operate independently of one another, to stay locked into rigidly structured responses, and to avoid collaborative responses; (2) \Helping Parents Be Parents\ (Howard Mandeville and Polly Snodgrass); (3) \Mothers with Developmental Disabilities: Common Issues and Needs\ (Bette Keltner); (4) \Parents with Cognitive Limitations: What Do We Know about Providing Support?\ (Lynda Anderson and K. Charlie Lakin); (5) \Perpetuating the Sprit of Kako'o\ (Stacy Kong); (6) \Supporting Parenting Rights: Arc Hennepin\ (Lori Gildersleeve); (7) \Two Decades of Parent Support: Reuben Lindh Parenting Program\ (Audrey Kvist); (8) \Supporting… [PDF]

Good, Paul (1973). Cairo, Illinois: Racism at Floodtide. Clearinghouse Publication Number 44. This publication largely is based upon the testimony given at the hearing held by the Commission on Civil Rights in Cairo, Illinois, in March 1972. Half of the families in the Cairo area have poverty incomes, according to federal standards. Unemployment at 9 percent is nearly double the national average. About a third of the city–county population gets some kind of public assistance. More than one half of Cairo's dwellings are classified as deteriorating or dilapidated. How did Cairo get that way? Certainly uncontrollable economic developments contributed to the material decline. But disastrous race relations have blighted human resources essential to progress. Testimony before the Commission show that over the decades, blacks have comprised roughly 30 percent of the county and 40 percent of the city population. But no black had ever served on the county Housing Authority, the Cairo Public Utility Commission, Building Commission or Library Board. There were blacks in city office… [PDF]

Cornwell, Grant H.; Stoddard, Eve Walsh (2006). Freedom, Diversity, and Global Citizenship. Liberal Education, v92 n2 p26-33 Spr. In this article, the authors state that liberal education depends upon–presupposes–unfettered thought, inquiry, and expression. This is necessary not only for the production of knowledge but also for the preparation of citizens in a diverse democracy. A vital campus is one where ideas meet, mix, conflict, engage, and emerge changed by the interaction. Genuine dialogue is a difficult, even fragile, human endeavor. It entails both speaking and listening, articulating one's views and earnestly considering those of others. Campus communities need both to protect the rights of all members to think and speak freely and to foster the conditions that make dialogue possible. The word \liberal\ in \liberal education\ originally meant education for free men, an education to prepare men for the exercise of freedom within their polity. For this reason the practice of freedom on campus is deeply tied to the practice of freedom in the larger society and internationally, as well as individually… [PDF] [Direct]

Norris, Cynthia J. (1986). Administrative Brain Dominance Styles. Characteristic reform measures that perfect the status quo and maintain educational order have become outdated and irrelevant to our times. Educators are calling for leaders with the ability to sense organizational needs from a holistic approach and with the insight or intuitive feel for what the organization can become. Such activity depends upon the complementary incorporation of left-brain processes of analysis and judgment with right-brain visionary, or conceptual, skills. Recent research does not present a positive picture of the superintendent as an agent for change, in that most superintendents have been found to be analytical and technical in the problem-solving approach, rather than intuitive and conceptual. This paper describes a study that confirms these findings. The study explored brain dominance styles prevalent among 115 Tennessee school supervisors, principals, and superintendents, most of whom were nominated by an expert panel on the basis of outstanding leadership….

Shaver, James P. (1972). Values and Schooling: Perspectives for School People and Parents. The purpose of this lecture is to provide a perspective from which parents and school people can formulate reasoned opinions on what the school's role should be in regard to students' values. The author offers a definition of values and discusses three rough categories of values–esthetic, instrumental, and moral. The school is a creature of the society it serves–in our case, a democracy. Thus, the perspective from which we view questions about schooling and values should include a considered definition of a democratic society. It is important to recognize that teachers/administrators are agents of the society. The society is within its rights in refusing to employ those who would use the school for subversion. But, in light of the earlier discussion of values and pluralism, a decision as to what constitutes subversion may be difficult to make. As agents of the society, the teacher/administrator must be beholden to a conception of democracy that goes beyond responding to strident… [PDF]

Achermann, Peter; Borbely, Alexander A.; Brandeis, Daniel; Gottselig, Julie Marie; Hofer-Tinguely, Gilberte (2004). Human Central Auditory Plasticity Associated with Tone Sequence Learning. Learning & Memory, v11 n2 p162-171 Mar. We investigated learning-related changes in amplitude, scalp topography, and source localization of the mismatch negativity (MMN), a neurophysiological response correlated with auditory discrimination ability. Participants (n = 32) underwent two EEG recordings while they watched silent films and ignored auditory stimuli. Stimuli were a standard (probability = 85%) and two deviant (probability = 7.5% each for high [HD] and low [LD]) eight-tone sequences that differed in the frequency of one tone. Between recordings, subjects practiced discriminating the HD or LD from the standard for 6 min. The amplitude of the LD MMN increased significantly across recordings in both groups, whereas the amplitude of the HD MMN did not. The LD was easier to discriminate than was the HD. Thus, practicing either discrimination increased the MMN for the easier discrimination. Learning and changes in the LD MMN amplitude were highly correlated. Source localizations of event-related potentials (ERPs) to all… [Direct]

Buchel, Christian; Glascher, Jan; Rose, Michael; Sommer, Tobias; Wolbers, Thomas (2005). Dissociable Contributions within the Medial Temporal Lobe to Encoding of Object-Location Associations. Learning & Memory, v12 n3 p343-351 May. The crucial role of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) in episodic memory is well established. Although there is little doubt that its anatomical subregions–the hippocampus, peri-, entorhinal and parahippocampal cortex (PHC)–contribute differentially to mnemonic processes, their specific functions in episodic memory are under debate. Data from animal, human lesion, and neuroimaging studies suggest somewhat contradictory perspectives on this functional specialization: a general participation in declarative memory, an exclusive involvement in associative mnemonic processes, and a specific contribution to spatial memory are reported for the hippocampus, adjacent cortices, and the PHC. A functional lateralization in humans dependent on the verbalizability of the material is also discussed herein. To further elucidate the differential contributions of the various MTL subregions to encoding, we employed an object-location association memory paradigm. The memory for each of the studied… [Direct]

Annie Sansonetti (2024). A Day at Lia Garc√≠a's Elementary School. Research in Drama Education, v29 n4 p620-634. This article recounts a day at Mexican writer, activist, educator, and performance artist Lia Garc√≠a's "elementary school": a "school" that takes the form of invited performances in other teachers' classrooms. It studies Garc√≠a's staging of an applied theatre workshop at an elementary school in November 2020 with her children's story Pan de Mia as its script. In an analysis of Garc√≠a's practice as a transfeminist artist and educator, I argue that Garc√≠a's emphasis on an affective education of culinary preparation in which children's capacity for consent is central offers a transfeminist lesson about children's right to bodily autonomy and consent…. [Direct]

(1992). Civil Rights, Diversity, and Accreditation. Hearing before the Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session (June 26, 1991). A congressional hearing was held concerning the Department of Education's failure to grant recognition to the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, a higher education accrediting agency, because of that agency's approach to promoting diversity on college campuses. Following opening statements by the committee members, the hearing's only witness, Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, testified. He began by noting that the review of Middle States was in process and by addressing the question of using diversity as a criterion for accrediting colleges and universities. He addressed the nature of the original charge to accreditation agencies, which was to assure academic quality standards, and not to check on the racial, ethnic, or gender mix of an institution. Secretary Alexander questioned the appropriateness of Middle States enforcing diversity standards. He also noted the power of these agencies as accreditation is linked to student and institutional federal funding…. [PDF]