(1971). Rejuvenating the Teaching of United States History. Social Education, 35, 7, 708-739, Nov 71. Questions and activities using still pictures, audio materials, simulations and games, popular arts, literature in the new social studies projects are given. Combinations of the right kind of media around fundamental human issues may help students get meaningful answers to the questions posed in the history classroom. (VW)…
(2001). Funding Federal Civil Rights Enforcement: 2000 and Beyond. This study assessed the federal civil rights enforcement budget since fiscal year (FY) 1994, analyzing the effects of recent civil rights legislation and executive orders on workload levels and staff demands. It describes and analyzes the budget requests of the Clinton administration from FY 1994 to FY 2001 and the funding levels appropriated by Congress in response to Clinton's requests. Results demonstrate that since the Commission's 1995 report, the nation's enforcement of civil rights laws continues to be threatened by unequal and uneven funding and staffing for federal civil rights agencies. Inadequate funding and staff levels persist in each of the agencies, even though enforcement responsibilities of the agencies have grown substantially. The six chapters present data on: (1) "Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education"; (2) "U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission"; (3) "Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, U.S. Department… [PDF]
(1991). Children and Work: Rights to Become Creative and Productive. School Psychology Review, v20 n3 p389-400. Adverse consequences of contemporary modes of work, child rearing, and schooling for human and child development and the quality of life; the potential of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to relieve some of these consequences; and ways educators can improve child development are reviewed. (SLD)…
(2012). Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool. Educational Leadership for Social Justice. IAP – Information Age Publishing, Inc. Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations. It is incumbent to encourage public awareness of the causes that underlie the destructive cycles plaguing these populations, including the abuse and neglect that cycle through generations. When effectively addressed through education the economic burden on society is lightened and an advocacy to increase understanding engenders a humane response. When connecting education-based incarceration to leadership and social justice, several issues come to mind, beginning with the universal understanding that definitions of social justice are based on a variety of factors, like political orientation, religious background, and political and social philosophy. An increased body of researchers in educational leadership, ethics, law, sociology, corrections, law enforcement, criminal justice, and public… [Direct]
(1984). Future of Institutional Services in Ohio: Do We Need to Plan for Institutional Services? Position Paper No. 1. The first of five papers written by the Ohio Developmental Disabilities Planning Council's Deinstitutionalization Task Force Project, this document focuses on the role of institutional services. Following a brief summary of planning principles (least restrictive alternative, right to services, normalization, equal justice, respect for human dignity, and developmental orientation), the document reviews planning processes and strategies. Each of 10 potential system barriers (prior fiscal investment, employee rights, parent concerns, public attitudes, community resources, funding resources, legal concerns, coordination/management, individual rights, and community program capacity) is addressed in terms of consequences, solution strategies, and conclusions. Recommendations include increased funding to expand local services, cost-sharing between state and local community, and increased planning efforts geared to developing integrated community-based services. (CL)… [PDF]
(2009). What Works for Latino Students in Higher Education: 2009 Compendium–Profiles of Selected Programs. Examples of iExcelencia!. Excelencia in Education (NJ1) By 2025, 22 percent of the U.S. college-age population will be Latino, a level already exceeded in four states: California, Florida, New York, and Texas. However, today, only seven percent of Latinos ages 18 to 24 have an associate's degree or higher compared to 9 percent of African Americans, 16 percent of white, and 25 percent of Asians of the same age cohort. Given the importance of college degree completion for U.S. society and economic competitiveness, meeting the country's future human capital and workforce needs make it imperative to improve outcomes for Latino students. As public attention is focused on achievement gaps in education, educators and policymakers search for what they can do to improve education outcomes for Latino students. Finding the right solutions can be difficult. "Excelencia" in Education responds to this challenge by linking research, policy, and practice that supports higher educational achievement for Latino students. Premier in this effort is… [PDF]
(2005). Extinction and Renewal of Pavlovian Modulation in Human Sequential Feature Positive Discrimination Learning. Learning & Memory, v12 n2 p178-192 Mar. Using a conditioned suppression task, we investigated extinction and renewal of Pavlovian modulation in human sequential Feature Positive (FP) discrimination learning. In Experiment 1, in context a participants were first trained on two FP discriminations, X[right arrow]A+/A- and Y[right arrow]B+/B-. Extinction treatment was administered in the acquisition context a (\aaa\ group) or in a new context b (\aba\ group), and comprised X[right arrow]A- extinction and Y- control trials. Discriminative X[right arrow]A/A responding was lost in both groups when tested in the extinction context, but partially recovered in the \aba\ and not in the \aaa\ group when tested in the acquisition context, suggesting extinction and renewal of extinguished modulation. The same was observed for the Y[right arrow]B/B control pair, however, questioning whether the loss of discriminative X[right arrow]A/A responding represented genuine extinction of modulation. In Experiment 2, including only \aba\ groups,… [Direct]
(1986). Alphabetic Literacy and Brain Processes. Visible Language, v20 n3 p274-93 Sum. Hypothesizes that writing systems affect cognitive strategies at a deeper level of human information-processing than is generally accepted in present day psychology. Discusses why almost all varieties of alphabets, syllabaries, and consonantal systems have been written to the left while vocalic systems have been written to the right. (JD)…
(1983). Ethical Objectivism-Subjectivism: A Neglected Dimension in the Study of Moral Thought. Journal of Moral Education, v12 n3 p192-207 Oct. The debate between objectivists, who see right and wrong as fixed, and the subjectivists, who see moral positions as the result of human needs and desires, is often neglected in studying moral development and the goals of moral education. Surveys involving 2300 respondents show the importance of this dichotomy. (IS)…
(1982). Procedures and Policies for Regulating Field-Based Behavioral Technology. Behavioral Disorders, v8 n1 p32-40 Nov. This paper addresses efforts to monitor and control the applications of behavioral technology in human services. A brief review of accountability from a behavioral perspective is followed by viewpoints on the rights of clients subject to behavioral interventions. Three state/provincial efforts at creating policy and guidelines are examined. (Author/CL)…
(1982). Hemispheric Specialization and the Growth of Human Understanding. American Psychologist, v37 n4 p411-20 Apr. Connectionistic notions of hemispheric specialization and use are incompatible with the network organization of the human brain. Although brain organization has correspondence with phenomena at more complex levels of analysis, the correspondence is not categorical in nature, as has been claimed by the left-brain/right-brain theorists. (Author/GC)…
(1981). Hemispheres as Independent Resource Systems: Limited-Capacity Processing and Cerebral Specialization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v7 n5 p1031-58 Oct. A framework for understanding how cerebral specialization of function contributes to the flexibility of human information processing is presented. The left and right hemispheres together form a system of two mutually inaccessible and finite pools of resources which cannot be made available in different amounts at any given time. (Author/RD)…
(1980). In Defense of the Homosexual Teacher. Viewpoints in Teaching and Learning, v56 n4 p74-84 Fall. Educators can strengthen students' commitment to the value of human dignity by openly affirming the homosexual teacher's right to teach. Common myths concerning homosexuality are explored and a history of homosexuality in education is given. Cultural, religious, psychological, and physiological points of view on the question of homosexuality are examined. (JN)…
(1976). A Period of Divergent Influences, 1941-1950. NUEA Spectator, 40, 24, 16-8, Jun 76. World War II dramatically increased the scope of higher education/university extension. Two other forces creating educational change were the GI Bill of Rights (1944) and the President's Commission on Higher Education (1947). New directions included postgraduate professional training, labor education, human relations training, interagency coordination, and community development. (EA)…
(1989). Institutions Have Moral Responsibility to Preserve Great Book Collections. Educational Record, v70 n2 p54-55 Spr. The ethics of book preservation are the same ethics held by institutions of higher learning: equitable access to information; protection of individual rights to privacy in using those resources; development of collections that are unbiased records of diverse viewpoints; and preservation of the human record with all its variety. (MLW)…