(1982). Literacy as a Human Problem. First presented as papers in a symposium on literacy conducted at the University of Alabama, essays in this volume explore three areas of human literacy–law, linguistics, and the English language; testing; and literacy's relation with culture and human consciousness. Following an introduction examining literacy as a human problem, the following nine papers are presented: "Don't Grammar Count?" (Thomas H. Middleton); "Literacy: A Human and a Legal Problem" (Vivian I. Davis); "Why Good English Is Good for You" (John Simon); "Language: Unites or Divides? The Students' Right in Retrospect" (Elisabeth McPherson); "How Competent Are the Writing Competency Tests? (Thomas Newkirk); "Who Am I Unless I Know You? Another View of Competence" (Richard Lloyd-Jones); "A Literal View of Literacy" (Edward P. J. Corbett); "Luria on Literacy: The Cognitive Consequences of Reading and Writing" (Frank J. D'Angelo); and…
(2008). Historical Overview. Journal of Social Work Education, v44 suppl 3 p17-26 Fall. In this article, the author presents a historical overview of four decades of scholarship and changing public policy on family and informal caregiving for older adults. Families are changing at a dizzying pace. Changes in family composition, cultural diversity, geographic mobility, and societal norms, coupled with increasing numbers of older adults living with high levels of disability, are changing how caregiving for older adults is balanced among families, informal networks, and formal supports. Social policy, practice models, and empirical research have not kept pace with these changes. This country has yet to develop a comprehensive, integrated, long-term care system that views informal caregivers both as care partners and as service recipients in their own right. Moreover, recent policy changes designed to reduce government expenditures put families at risk for having to take on even greater care responsibilities. For better and for worse, communication and technologic… [Direct]
(1991). Within-School Discrimination: Inadequate Title VI Enforcement by Education's Office for Civil Rights. Statement of Lawrence H. Thompson, Assistant Comptroller General, Human Resources Division, Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate. A disproportionate number of minority students in U.S. public elementary and secondary schools are in lower-ability classes and special education programs. This has led to Congressional concern about student resegregation resulting from within-school discrimination. The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for ensuring that educational institutions that receive federal funds comply with federal civil rights statutes, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI regulations require that OCR investigate civil rights complaints from parents and other sources, and conduct self-initiated investigations, called compliance reviews, whenever it has information of school districts' possible noncompliance. This testimony before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources presents the following findings: (1) minority students are disproportionately placed in some classes in more than half of the nation's school districts; (2) OCR has not… [PDF]
(1978). Undergraduate Black Student Retention Revisited. Educational Record, 59, 2, 156-65, Spr 78. It is contended that until now colleges and universities have been reacting defensively to the problem of affirmative action. They must now set realistic goals in recruitment and retention, commit financial and human resources to these goals, and set up contractual agreements that clearly delineate the rights and obligation of the student as well as the institution. (Author/LBH)…
(1986). Health Educators in the Workplace: Helping Companies Respond to the AIDS Crisis. Health Education Quarterly, v13 n4 p395-406 Win. This article identifies various dimensions of the AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)-related issues emerging in corporations nationwide, including confidentiality, the right of patients to work, benefits and insurance, HTLV-III (Human T-Lymphotropic Type III) screening, fears of contagion among workers, needs of companies to avoid financial and legal exposure, and effects on worker productivity. (Author/CT)…
(1979). Children's Rights and Intellectual Freedom. Educational Forum, v43 n3 p291-98 Mar. Discussed are three intellectual rights of children which need protecting: (1) freedom from exploitation via propaganda; (2) freedom to encounter alternative points of view regarding religion and ideologies; and (3) freedom to participate in the creation and justification of human values and social groups that directly affect their lives. Implications within the context of elementary education are considered. (BM)…
(2003). More Than Test Scores: A Liberal Contextualist Picture of Educational Accountability. Educational Theory, v53 n1 p1-18 Win. Draws upon contextualism (a normative theory of social justice that takes seriously the heterogeneity of human value commitments) to propose a framework for educational accountability that is premised on accountability's normativity and the diversity of educators' desired aims, focusing on: liberal contextualism and democratic education; and liberal contextualism's three realms of accountability (right, association, and meaning).(SM)…
(2003). Institutional Pressures, Human Resource Strategies, and the Rise of Nonunion Dispute Resolution Procedures. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, v56 n3 p375-92 Apr. Analysis of data from a 1998 telecommunications industry survey indicates that institutional pressures and human resource strategies contribute to adoption of nonunion dispute resolution procedures. Employment rights litigation and court deferral to nonunion arbitration led to an increase in mandatory arbitration procedures. Threat of unionization influenced employers to adopt peer review procedures. (Contains 52 references.) (SK)…
(1989). Project THEORIA: New Media for Values Education. Educational Technology, v29 n5 p31-32 May. Describes Project THEORIA, which was developed at Carnegie Mellon University to design interactive simulation environments for testing hypotheses and theories of the arts and human morals. Three projects in various stages of design and development are described: (1) "A Right to Die?; (2) "Art or Forgery?"; and (3) "Birth or Abortion?". (LRW)…
(1989). Judicial Attitude toward Legal Rights and AIDS. Mental Retardation, v27 n4 p249-51 Aug. Caselaw that functions as law until statutes are enacted has been characteristic of legal issues surrounding the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) diseases. In most cases such caselaw has protected the civil rights of persons with HIV/AIDS under established law as well as the traditions of Western law. (Author/DB)…
(1994). Sound Investigation: The Key to Defensible Human Resource Action. CUPA Journal, v45 n4 p11-15 Win. When a college/university employee feels that his/her rights have been abrogated, the human resource department and in-house legal staff should be prepared to conduct a comprehensive, objective, and professional investigation. Such issues as proof of misconduct, \reasonable grounds,\ negligent investigation claims, and defamation claims are discussed, and an investigation checklist is presented. (MSE)…
(1995). Critical Pedagogy and Outdoor Education. Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, v7 n4 p24-25 Jun. Critical pedagogy is committed to the development of theories and practices that expose and eliminate the underlying biases of traditional education. Critical pedagogy along with outdoor education can seek to eliminate anthropocentrism, the belief that humans are separate from and superior to all other life and have the right to dominate and control other life. (LP)…
(1993). Academic Freedom and the Parameters of Knowledge. Harvard Educational Review, v63 n2 p143-60 Sum. A case study of a state university illustrates the overt and covert limitations of study and discussion of gay, lesbian, and bisexual issues on campus. Although the university is committed to the advancement of human understanding, gay, lesbian, and bisexual faculty and students feel their civil rights are threatened, and research pertaining to these issues is therefore limited. (SK)…
(2000). Children's Participation: Control and Self-Realisation in British Late Modernity. Children & Society, v14 n4 p304-15 Sep. Examines children's participation in public life in relation to the tension between control and self-realization found in late modernity. Argues that social tension is created through the conflict between recognition of children as persons in their own right and public policy marked by intensification of control of children creating a view of children as human capital. (JPB)…
(2005). What Are the Ultimate Meaning and Significance of "Brown v. Board of Education?" A Note on Justice, Constitutionalism, and the Human Person. Negro Educational Review, The, v56 n1 p3-10 Jan. Much of the country has participated in the 50th anniversary celebration of "Brown v. Board of Education," a decision handed down by the Supreme Court on May 17, 1954. This historic, landmark, controversial, and revolutionary case nullified and reversed so much of the content, character, and spirit of American constitutional history, jurisprudence, and moral philosophy on the status, rights, and privileges of blacks and helped to catalyze, mobilize, and energize the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Revolution. This article discusses the ultimate meaning and significance of "Brown v. Board of Education." The Brown case makes justice and equality or "equal justice" the centerpiece and cornerstone of American constitutionalism in reference to blacks as citizens and human beings. Central is substantial, meaningful, and full equality. Gone is the idea of "partial," fragmentary, limited, relative equality in comparison to whites. Equality is truly… [Direct]