Mabbutt, Richard (1991). Reducing Bias: Research Notes on Racism in America. This paper highlights recent developments in research on racism in the United States, and notes several conceptual issues of significance for the long-range planning work of those interested in reducing racism in America and particularly in Idaho. Growth in the number of minority researchers has resulted in increased attention toward racism as it affects other minority groups, and has led to the development of new theories or reinterpretations and to the greater sophistication of both theoretical development and empirical investigations. In addition, there is greater diversity to the definition of the word "racism". Some "constellations" of findings of recent empirical research on prejudice and discrimination include results on how prejudice is learned, class prejudice, racism and self-esteem, the impact of contact among diverse groups, additive multiculturalism, the nature of social experiences, and the role of schools. In addressing each of these subjects, the… [PDF]

(2016). U.S. Department of Education FY 2016 Agency Financial Report. Office of the Chief Financial Officer, US Department of Education The purpose of the United States Department of Education's (the Department) Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 "Agency Financial Report" (AFR) is to inform Congress, the President, and the American people on how the Department has used the federal resources entrusted to it to promote achievement and preparedness of students entering a global environment by fostering excellence and ensuring equal access. The Department demonstrated its commitment to education by, among other things: improving access to early learning programs, reforming elementary and secondary education, making higher education more accessible and affordable, and working to attract talented people to the teaching profession. The Department also demonstrated that it is a good steward of financial resources by putting in place well-controlled and well-managed business and financial management systems and processes. The AFR also provides high-level financial and performance highlights, assessments of controls, a summary of… [PDF]

Dass, Nirmal (2008). Recouping the Value of the Humanities. College Quarterly, v11 n4 Fall. The corporate approach to education is groundless (because a large portion of education in the past, and even still, has always been firmly grounded in the Humanities). So, why this continuous assault on the Humanities? Because educational institutions have bought into the myth that education and the corporate world are hand-in-glove. But by assailing and dismantling the Humanities, have educators not also begun the process of removing the very foundation of liberal democracy–it has not been the corporate world that provided them with ideas which they supposedly cherish–ideas, such as, freedom, personal liberty, human dignity, democracy, and equality. In this article, the author stresses the role and function of Humanities and tries to recoup its value…. [PDF]

Jordan, John W. (2009). Reshaping the \Pillow Angel\: Plastic Bodies and the Rhetoric of Normal Surgical Solutions. Quarterly Journal of Speech, v95 n1 p20-42 Feb. This essay uses the controversial \Ashley Treatment\ to argue that normative body rhetorics have become untethered from and more influential than traditional medical perspectives in determinations about surgical intervention. While disagreeing greatly over the ethics of the \Treatment,\ both its supporters and critics construct rhetorics of a \healthy\ body against which pre- and post-Treatment bodies can be evaluated. These rhetorics demonstrate how \health\ and \illness\ can be defined more through social ideology than medical certainty, resulting in fluid notions of what it means to have a \normal\ body and how surgical techniques should be employed to achieve normality. (Contains 84 notes.)… [Direct]

Lakes, Richard D.; Yates, Mark T. (2010). After Pell Grants: The Neoliberal Assault on Prisoners. Policy Futures in Education, v8 n1 p61-70. The number of prisoners in the United States has accelerated over the past thirty years, giving it the highest incarceration rate in the world. The rise in the prison rate has coincided with the ascendancy of neoliberal policies of governance. These include, deregulation of markets, reduction of welfare services, and harsh punitive measures for those who transgress social mores. Contained within neoliberal criminal policy is the proclivity to utilize prisons as a means to maintain societal inequities. This article examines the link between prisoner education policy and wider social and economic policies that disproportionately affect people of color and the poor. Neoliberal prisoner education is predicated, in part, upon the privileging of vocational training over liberal, higher learning. Current policy, typified by the recently passed Second Chance Act, reinforces hierarchies both in education and in the workplace by narrowly defining prisoners as human capital within the market…. [Direct]

Barfield, Hannah G.; Belke, Stephanie L.; Scott, David A. (2011). Career Development with Transgender College Students: Implications for Career and Employment Counselors. Journal of Employment Counseling, v48 n3 p105-113 Sep. The number of transgender college students continues to increase every year. These students face unique challenges that many college and university career centers are not prepared to handle. This article describes some of the challenges facing transgender students and college career centers. A professional development design is proposed to assist career professionals who work with transgender clients in college career centers and community mental health agencies. Implications for career and employment counselors are also provided…. [Direct]

George, Eric W. (1992). Employment of Women Holding Tenure-System Teaching Positions at Kentucky's Universities and Community Colleges Hits Record High 1990. Staff Report 92-2. This staff report presents data on tenured and non-tenured female faculty employment in Kentucky's university system and an analysis of employment patterns of the state-supported institutions of higher learning. Among the findings are the following: (1) the addition of 306 women teachers to the tenure system lifted both the number and percentage of female faculty to a 16-year high; (2) six of the nine state universities (counting the community college system as one university) employed more tenure-system women in 1990 than in 1987; (3) Kentucky State University lost more tenure-system women than any other state university; and (4) Kentucky's universities included about 3.9 percent black females in their tenure system in 1990, which was more than in any other year. However, black women held proportionally fewer tenure-system positions than in all but two of the last 16 years. In addition, the report shows that 4 out of 10 faculty on track for tenure consideration were female….

Farmer, David A. (1988). Kentucky Universities Gain Eight Black Professors in 1987 Reversing Six-Year Decline. Staff Report 88-6. This staff report presents data on black faculty employment in the tenure program of the Kentucky state university system and the employment patterns of the state-supported institutions of higher learning. Among the findings are the following: (1) the total number of blacks teaching in the tenure system rose to 131 in 1987, reversing a 6-year decline; this, however, brought the total to 4 fewer than in 1975; (2) total blacks teaching in the tenure system in 1987 represented 2.6 percent of the total faculty; (3) 11 more blacks taught at traditionally white institutions in 1987 than in 1985; and (4) Western State University had the lowest rate of employing black faculty with blacks making up just 0.8 percent of its faculty. Overall, the report shows that Kentucky's state-supported universities and community colleges made modest gains in the employment of black faculty members between 1985 and 1987. The traditionally white universities in Kentucky are viewed as still quite distant from…

George, Eric (1988). Jefferson County Schools within Student Compliance Guidelines for First Time but Segregation Exists in Almost All Advance Programs 1987-88. Staff Report 88-9. This paper reports on the status of desegregation of students, teachers, administrators, and central office personnel in the Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) for the 1987-88 school year. The report indicates that although all schools were brought within the student enrollment guidelines for the 1987-88 school year, many problems remain unsolved. The following desegregation problems are discussed: (1) student enrollment at some schools still does not meet state distribution guidelines; (2) advanced programs and black teachers and administrators are still being segregated; (3) segregated advanced programs are used to offset racial imbalance in regular programs; (4) inner-county schools still have the highest black-student percentages while outer-county schools still have the lowest, and both regions are losing black students; (5) the student ethnic and racial profile is inconsistently reported across schools; (6) new black teachers are still being assigned to predominantly…

George, Eric (1990). Discrimination against Black Apartment-Seekers Increases Slightly in Western Kentucky, 1989. Staff Report 90-1. This study of racial discrimination toward blacks seeking rental units in seven Western Kentucky cities found that blacks were treated differently and negatively compared to whites at a rate of 9.8 percent in 1989, whereas the rate of discrimination in 1987 was 7.5 percent. Information was collected from tests by teams of black and white testers posing as apartment-seekers. The following discrimination criteria were applied: (1) availability; (2) courtesy; (3) location; (4) requirements; (5) neglect; (6) quality; (7) racial remarks; and (8) price. Among results reported are the following: (1) overall, instances of discriminatory treatment of blacks increased between 1987 and 1989; (2) rental agents in Paducah, Bowling Green, Owensboro, Henderson, Hopkinsville, Murray, and Fulton were most likely to discriminate by misrepresenting apartment availability; (3) blacks were treated less courteously than whites more frequently in 1989 than in 1987; (4) Henderson had more discrimination in…

(1982). Number and Percent of Black Faculty at State Universities Decline from 1979 to 1981. Staff Report 82-10. Analysis of employment patterns at State colleges and universities in Kentucky shows that the percentage and number of black faculty declined from 1979 to 1981. Most of the traditionally white State universities continued in 1981 to have overwhelmingly white faculties. Blacks comprised 2.8 percent of the faculty across the State, and only 2.0 percent of faculty at the previously white schools were black. The University of Kentucky, the State's largest, employed 25 blacks out of a faculty of 1511. Only the University of Kentucky's community college system improved steadily in hiring black faculty each year since 1975. Even so, the percentage of black faculty in the community colleges still represented less than the 7.1 percent of blacks in the State population as of 1980. More progress was made at Kentucky State University than at any other State school, with the black faculty concentration continuing to decline from 50 percent in 1975 to 39.8 percent in 1981, making Kentucky State's…

(1983). Female Faculty Increases Slightly to 27 Percent at State Universities. Staff Report 83-1. Analysis of the employment patterns of State colleges and universities in Kentucky shows that small increases in the number of women working in the State university tenure system raised the percentage of female faculty from 25.7 percent in 1975 to 27 percent in 1981. The percentage of minority female faculty members, however, dropped between 1979 and 1981, from 4.8 percent of all female faculty to 4.7 percent. The fact that the two largest State universities–the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville–still had fewer than 20 percent of their tenure system faculty positions held by women shows that significant gains are yet to be made among Kentucky's State-supported universities. The accomplishments of the University of Kentucky's community college system, however, in increasing both the number and percentage (from 50.7 percent to 55 percent) of female faculty between 1979 and 1981 prove that qualified women can be hired and effectively used in faculty positions….

(1985). Jefferson County and Louisville Have Most Segregated Public Housing in Kentucky 1985: Desegregation Accelerates at Most Authorities between July 1984 and July 1985. This report examines the state of integration at 22 public housing authorities in Kentucky. Family residency data showed that the public housing authorities of Jefferson County and Louisville were the first and second most segregated authorities in Kentucky as of July 1985. Overall, however, desegregation at Kentucky's public housing authorities accelerated between 1984 and 1985. The following steps are suggested to eliminate segregation: (1) authorities should adopt and implement voluntary affirmative action desegregation plans; (2) those authorities operating under affirmative action desegregation plans should recommit themselves to abiding by their desegregation obligations; (3) any new housing project should open with racial occupancy equal to the authority-wide black/white family ratio; and (4) housing authorities planning rehabilitation/remodeling work should move a racially balanced tenant population into the project once construction is completed. The report concludes with…

(1987). Record 14 Fayette County Schools Assigned over 30 Percent Black Students 1986-87. Black Teachers Fall to Nine-Year Low of 187; Two Black Administrators Added. This report examines the desegregation of students, teachers, and administrators in the Fayette County (Kentucky) Public Schools for the 1986-87 school year. It is based on counts of students and professional personnel made in September 1986. Findings show that racial polarization is intensifying in the Fayette County schools. More blacks and fewer whites are attending the elementaries in the northern sector of the county. A large and growing number of whites–and more blacks–are attending the elementaries in the southern area of the county. The central-area elementaries continue to have the highest percentage of black students. The current district assignment policy is creating overcrowded conditions in almost all the southern elementaries and underutilization of capacity in almost all the northern and central elementaries. Portable classrooms are being used to maintain segregation and avoid cross-district busing. The report suggests that an alternative to building a new…

(1987). Inner-County Boundary Adjustments Pull Nearly all Schools within Guidelines 1986-87: Percentage of Black Teachers Unchanged, but Number Up; No Black Football and Basketball Coaches at Four Schools, Few Whites at Formerly-Black Schools. School officials, civil rights advocates, and students and parents deserve praise for the success the Jefferson County (Kentucky) Public Schools integration program has had in placing almost all schools within the enrollment guidelines for the 1986-87 school year for the first time since school desegregation began. Recommendations made for continuing successful integration efforts include the following: (1) a return to counting enrollment in mid-November; (2) possible boundary adjustments to accommodate adding 550 more black students to the inner-county secondary schools; (3) hiring of more black teachers and administrators; (4) use of hiring practices to break the destructive pattern of racial identifiability in the assignment of professional personnel that has emerged in some schools; and (5) support of efforts to increase housing desegregation. Charts are included which illustrate findings. Two appendices provide statistics on student enrollment by race in Jefferson County Public…

Briley, Kyle D. (1985). School Desegregation Spurs First Housing Desegregation Gain in Forty Years in Louisville and Jefferson County. Three Decades of Increased Segregation Erased between 1970 and 1980. Staff Report 85-8. This report describes housing desegregation gains in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky, largely caused by school desegregation. The work of Judge James F. Gordon, who presided over the school desegregation plan, is cited as instrumental in aiding in this process. He ruled that no child in the minority in a neighborhood would be used for desegregation purposes, which in effect provided encouragement to black families to move into white school attendance areas, thus desegregating neighborhoods. The report finds the following desegregation gains in Louisville and Jefferson County: (1) In 1970, 15 census tracts were all white, and by 1980 the number was cut in half; (2) the percentage of black residents increased in 78.5% of the census tracts between 1970 and 1980; (3) the number of blacks living in suburban areas of Jefferson County increased by 275% between 1970 and 1980; (4) Louisville's desegregation status in 1980 was close to the national average; (5) housing desegregation…

George, Eric (1985). Black Teachers Lose Employment Ground, 1954-84. Staff Report 84-4. Black teachers lost employment ground while White teachers gained employment ground in Kentucky's public schools between 1953-54 and 1983-84. The number of Black teachers rose by 181 while the number of White teachers rose by 13,672, an average net increase of one Black teacher for every 76 White teachers. The percentage of Black teachers declined steadily, from 6.8 percent to 4.5 percent. (If not for the Jefferson County Public Schools, which employed 400 more Black teachers during 1984 than the Jefferson County and Louisville districts combined during 1954, the number of Blacks teaching in Kentucky's public schools would have declined by 219.) The Black teacher gap grew enormously, from 96 more Black teachers than needed to reach parity between the percentages of Black teachers and students to a shortfall of 1,445 Black teachers. In addition between 1978-79 and 1983-84, Kentucky's public school districts reduced the number of Black teachers for the first time, allowed the…

George, Eric (1984). Jefferson County School Officials Allow Continued Resegregation, 1983-84. School Compliance and Number of Black Teachers Hit All-Time Lows. Staff Report 84-3. Desegregation in the Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) deteriorated in many key aspects but improved in two others during 1983-84. The percentage of schools out of compliance with student enrollment guidelines rose and the number of black teachers fell to their worst levels since school desegregation began. The number and percentage of black vocational teachers also fell to new lows. On the positive side, the distribution of black teachers among schools, and the number and percentage of black administrators improved over 1982-83. School officials' actions and inaction created seemingly unmanageable problems used to justify replacing the desegregation plan in use since 1975-76 with a revised plan. School administrators will need to disclose full and accurate desegregation data if the community is to succeed in monitoring implementation of any future desegregation plan. (Author)…

Foushee, Ray; Hamilton, Doug (1977). Housing Desegregation Increases as Schools Desegregate in Jefferson County. The number of black pupils living in traditionally all white suburban Jefferson County neighborhoods has increased significantly since 1974. Data taken from school enrollment information indicate a 63 percent increase in the three years from 1974 to 1977. Increases in housing desegregation in suburban areas are complemented by a slight lessening of segregation in the city of Louisville, due mainly to the decrease of black pupils in the city boundaries. Statistics indicating these trends are presented in table form. The statistics are significant because, under the desegregation plan, attendance areas which become sufficiently desegregated to meet court guidelines can become exempted from transportation for the purpose of desegregation. Factors contributing to housing desegregation are analyzed, and the need for broadening fair housing efforts is stressed. (Author/GC)…

(1978). Affirmative Action Cuts Segregation in Public Housing. A Report on Occupancy in 15 Municipal Authorities. Staff Report 78-9. The success of voluntary affirmative action plans adopted by public housing authorities in four Kentucky cities is documented in this report. Progress toward concerted desegregation efforts in other Kentucky cities is cited. Desegregation methods used by Kentucky municipal housing authorities are outlined and their effectiveness is illustrated. Tables depict (1) changes in predominantly black projects; (2) changes in predominantly white projects; and (3) racial occupancy in 15 Kentucky Public Housing Authorities in July 1976 and March 1978. (WI)…

(1978). Black Share of Non-Faculty Jobs Down at Most State Universities–Up at Kentucky State. Blacks' share of non-faculty jobs in Kentucky institutions of higher education is examined in this second in a two-part series on employment in the state university system. The first report in this series was entitled "State University Faculties Stuck on Tokenism in Kentucky." Sections examine: tokenism in non-faculty jobs at state universities; blacks in executive jobs; blacks in technical and professional jobs; black percentage decline at white universities; high-paying jobs and faculty tokenism; women in the job market; and the effort of instltutions to improve their employment policies for blacks. Tables provide information on numbers and percentages of blacks hired in various positions and employment figures on females hired in various positions. Appendices cover employees, by sex, race/ethnicity (1975 and 1977); and new hirees for 1977 for the following positions: executive, administrative and managerial; professional non-faculty; technical and paraprofessional;…

REIF, JANE CRISIS IN NORFOLK. THE SCHOOL CRISIS IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, LASTED 5 MONTHS DURING WHICH TIME 10,000 CHILDREN WERE DENIED EDUCATION BECAUSE OF CLOSED SCHOOLS. FEWER THAN 4,500 STUDENTS WENT TO MAKE-SHIFT TUTORING GROUPS, 1,600 OF THEM TRANSFERRED TO SCHOOLS OUTSIDE THE CITY. SCHOOL CLOSING DISRUPTED FAMILY LIFE, WEAKENED COMMUNITY RELATIONS, AND HURT BUSINESS. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FAILURE IN THE NORFOLK SCHOOL CRISIS WAS THAT OF ESTABLISHED LEADERSHIP. VIRGINIA'S GOVERNOR HAD MADE IT CLEAR IN HIS GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS WOULD BE CLOSED BEFORE THEY WOULD BE ALLOWED TO OPEN AS INTEGRATED INSTITUTIONS. YET MOST PEOPLE WERE RELUCTANT TO FACE THE FACT THAT INTEGRATION WAS UPON THEM AND THAT THE STATE POLICY REPRESENTED AN IMPENDING DANGER TO PUBLIC EDUCATION. IN THE SUMMER OF 1958, BEFORE THE CRISIS IN THE FALL, A HANDFUL OF MEN AND WOMEN, WHO LATER FORMED THE NORFOLK COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION, WENT TO THE MAYOR TO DISCUSS THE COMING SCHOOL SITUATION. ALTHOUGH GREETED WITH ACCEPTANCE…

Foushee, Ray; And Others (1980). Housing and School Desegregation Increased by Section 8 Moves. Under Public Housing Program Most Black Families Chose Jefferson County Suburbs. Staff Report 80-1. The Section 8 housing assistance program in Jefferson County, Kentucky, is a Federally funded program designed to expand the housing choices of low to moderate income families. This report provides an analysis of all moves made in Jefferson County between 1975 and 1979 by participants in the program, as they relate to the county's school desegregation plan. High school attendance areas were used for geographic reference. The study indicated that the program has been responsible for major demographic changes in the racial character of the Jefferson County community. In several areas of the city, it has allowed the school board to reduce the amount of transportation necessary to achieve school desegregation. In other areas, it has created population shifts that necessitate additional student transportation. Tables of data and maps are included. (MK)…

Cloud, Olivia M. (1980). Blacks Moving to Suburban Apartments. Changes in Formerly All-White Areas Aid School Desegregation. Staff Report 80-6. This report, an analysis of the effects of housing patterns on school desegregation in Jefferson County, Kentucky, was based on data from Multiple Dwelling Reporting forms filed annually by owners and managers of 25 or more apartment units. High school attendance areas were used for geographic reference. Reports indicated that blacks are moving into suburban areas in increasing numbers and are renting more expensive apartments (compared to 1975 data). Fewer apartments were segregated in 1979 than in 1975. The movement made by blacks has had a positive effect in reducing the amount of busing needed to desegregate Jefferson County Schools. (MK)…

Briley, Kyle D.; And Others (1980). Black Employment in Kentucky State Agencies. More Blacks Employed But Salary Gap Widens. Staff Report 80-3. Statistics regarding black employment in Kentucky State agencies as of November, 1979 were examined. Data indicated that the number of blacks employed by the State increased since 1977. Nine agencies employed 91 percent of all blacks in the government, while ten agencies remained all white. One-half of all blacks in the State government were employed by the Department for Human Resources. The number of blacks working in health related fields increased by five percent during the past two years. Salary gaps were found to exist between black and white workers. While blacks made up 6.6 percent of the work force, they earned 5.2 percent of the State payroll. The average salary difference was $2,689 per year. Five departments had salary gaps of over $6,000 per annum. Almost three-fourths of all blacks and one-half of all whites in the State government earned less than $900 per month. Of the 1,968 different job categories in State government, blacks worked in 466. The largest job category…

Hamilton, Doug (1980). Jefferson County School Desegregation Unfinished. Pupil Desegregation Increases But Teacher Gaps Remain. Report for 1978-79 and 1979-80. Staff Report 80-2. Statistical data on student and faculty desegregation supplied by the Jefferson County (Kentucky) Board of Education for the 1978-79 and 1979-80 school years were analyzed. The number of schools not in compliance with school desegregation guidelines was reduced between 1978-79 and 1979-80. The inclusion of first graders in the desegregation plan brought all but twelve schools within the desegregation guidelines for pupil enrollment. Attendance zone adjustments were prepared for the 1980-81 school year to further increase student desegregation. Desegregation criteria for teacher assignments were not met in most high schools and vocational schools, but most elementary and middle schools met, or were close to meeting, faculty desegregation criteria. Every high school and 16 of the 22 middle schools had biracial administrative staffs in 1979-80. (MK)…

Foushee, Ray (1980). Most Kentucky Cities Reduce Public Housing Segregation. Staff Report 80-4. Recent trends related to the racial desegregation of public housing in Kentucky are described in this report. The following findings are highlighted: (1) in 1979, no Kentucky cities operated totally segregated public housing; (2) the Murray Housing Authority operated the State's most segregated public housing as of July 1979, with Hazard, Owensboro, Mayfield, Madisonville, Lexington, Elizabethtown, Hickman, Louisville, and Pineville following close behind; (3) four cities that were on the "ten most segregated" lists in 1976 (Russellville, Hopkinsville, Newport, and Henderson) sufficiently reduced their segregation to be removed from the 1979 list; (4) the voluntary adoption of Affirmative Action Tenant Placement Plans has resulted in dramatic progress toward public housing desegregation in several Kentucky cities, most notably Hopkinsville; and (5) in 1979, there were still thirteen public housing sites in Kentucky where all tenants were of one race, though both blacks and…

Tucker, Lee (2000). Fingers to the Bone: United States Failure To Protect Child Farmworkers. Agricultural work is the most hazardous and grueling area of employment open to U.S. children and is also the least protected. Adolescent farmworkers labor under more dangerous conditions than their peers working in nonagricultural settings and also face persistent wage exploitation and fraud. These adolescent workers are protected less under U.S. law than juveniles in safer occupations. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) allows children working on farms to be employed at a younger age than children performing other jobs; to work unlimited hours, even when school is in session; and to engage in hazardous work at a younger age. The FLSA's bias against farmworker children amounts to de facto race-based discrimination as 85 percent of farmworkers are minorities. Discrimination in legal protection leads directly to deprivation of other rights, most notably the right to education and to health and safety. U.S. law and practice contravene various international laws. Even the limited…

Scheyett, Anna; Swanson, Jeffrey W.; Swartz, Marvin S.; Van Dorn, Richard A. (2010). Psychiatric Advance Directives and Social Workers: An Integrative Review. Social Work, v55 n2 p157-167 Apr. Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal documents that allow individuals to express their wishes for future psychiatric care and to authorize a legally appointed proxy to make decisions on their behalf during incapacitating crises. PADs are viewed as an alternative to the coercive interventions that sometimes accompany mental health crises for people with mental illness. Insofar as coercive interventions can abridge clients' autonomy and self-determination–values supported by the NASW \Code of Ethics\–social workers have a vested interest in finding ways to reduce coercion and increase autonomy and self-determination in their practice. However, PADs are also viewed as having the potential to positively affect a variety of other clinical outcomes, including, but not limited to, treatment engagement, treatment satisfaction, and working alliance. This article reviews the clinical and legal history of PADs and empirical evidence for their implementation and effectiveness…. [Direct]

Daly, Clare (2009). In the Eye of a Divorce Storm: Examining the Modern Challenge for Irish Schools Educating Children of Divorced and Separated Families. Irish Educational Studies, v28 n3 p351-365 Sep. The rising divorce rate in Irish society has consequences which are resonating beyond the family, and schools can find themselves caught in the eye of the storm, having to communicate with parents in conflict over the custody of their children. This article considers the obligations on schools in such a situation, in the context Irish family law, the education rights of parents and the "partnership" approach now central in Irish education law and policy. It also explores the potential liability of schools with respect to the issue of parental child abduction. (Contains 23 notes.)… [Direct]