Raymond, James C., Ed. (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…

Scharlach, Andrew (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]

Thompson, Lawrence H. (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]

Garcia, Sandra A.; Seligsohn, Harriet C. (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)…

Aberth, John; Bauman, Laurie J. (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)…

Bronars, Joanne R. (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)…

Blacker, David (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)…

Colvin, Alexander J. S. (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)…

Covey, Preston (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)…

Stavis, Paul F. (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)…

Hirschfeld, Stephen J. (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)…

Russel, Constance L. (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)…

Tierney, William G. (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)…

Prout, Alan (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)…

Cook, Samuel DuBois (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]

Butler, Margaret; Johnson, Wanda; MacDougall, Sock-Foon C. (2004). Ten-Year Check-Up: Have Federal Agencies Responded to Civil Rights Recommendations? Volume IV: An Evaluation of the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development, and the Equal Opportunity Commission. US Commission on Civil Rights During this four-volume study, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights evaluated 11 federal agencies to determine whether or not they have responded to recommendations offered in previous reports and if civil rights enforcement improved as a result. Throughout the volumes, the Commission has identified good and inadequate civil rights practices that affect federal agencies' ability to carry out their enforcement responsibilities. This final volume evaluates the extent to which the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have implemented the Commission's previous recommendations. These agencies oversee federally conducted and federally assisted programs that have consequences for the nation's social welfare. Affected people rely on forceful enforcement of the civil rights statutes for which these agencies have responsibility to afford equal access to education and quality health care,… [PDF]

(1983). Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Efforts in Mid-America. A Report. This report summarizes a 1983 study, following previous research by the United States Commission on Civil Rights. The study examined several aspects of civil rights programs within federal agencies in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska: distribution of authority and resources, accomplishments in 1980, and plans for 1983. Information was obtained from regional officials or, for agencies that had no regional civil rights unit, from their national civil rights units. Thirteen descriptive sections cover the Environmental Protection Agency; the Department of Education; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Departments of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, and Transportation; the Small Business Administration; the Department of Energy; the Office of Revenue Sharing; and the Federal Executive Board. The report concludes that, although enforcement has not greatly decayed since…

(1975). A Prosecutor's Handbook for School Administrators. (Revised.). This handbook analyzes problems encountered by school administrators and staff involving school law, student rights, and school legal responsibility. Each section summarizes the relevant county, state, and federal laws and court decisions pertaining to such areas as student disturbances, student medical care, truancy, school security, married and/or pregnant students. rights, alcohol and drug abuse, student transportation, control and custody of evidence, search and seizure, vandalism, interrogation of students, and corporal punishment. This volume is the second edition of the handbook, which was compiled by the Oakland County (Michigan) Prosecutor's Office. In addition to the 28 law-related topics covered in this handbook, appendixes list juvenile court personnel and Oakland County human resources agencies. The final appendix, a teaching unit on juvenile rights designed to appeal to elementary and junior high school students, deals with legal questions often raised by juveniles. (DS… [PDF]

Veeran, Vasintha (2004). Working with Street Children: A Child-Centred Approach. Child Care in Practice, v10 n4 p359-366. This paper reviews the theoretical approaches that espouse a child-centred approach in intervening with street children. It focuses on two major themes, namely the rights of the child and client self-determination as proposed by Adler (Corey, 2001). The discussion acknowledges that providing street children with opportunities to participate in decision-making regarding their own lives is imperative. Notwithstanding their alleged marginalization, substantial motivation is provided for the adoption of a client-centred approach that upholds the rights of the child. The paper draws attention to the fact that despite the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), many street children experience deprivation with regard to their basic human needs. It is envisaged that whatever the circumstances for children being on the street, their involvement and participation in alleviating their plight will not be compromised…. [Direct]

Olasov, Linda (1993). Special Needs Adolescents and Sexuality Education: A Health Challenge for the Nineties. This paper offers a rationale for offering sexuality education for youth with mental handicaps, and outlines several myths about human sexuality and the mentally handicapped. Sexual rights of the mentally handicapped are listed. Items that should be included in sexual counseling are noted. The paper also discusses critical content areas in sexuality education, effective teaching techniques, modification of instructional objectives and classroom activities to meet special students' needs, and selection and modification of materials. Attachments include methods for individualizing instructional objectives, a sexual bill of rights for people with disabilities, a privacy values clarification strategy, and a checklist for parents to indicate appropriateness of various behaviors. (JDD)… [PDF]

Hagler, Paul; And Others (1987). The Potential for Faking on the Attitudes toward Disabled Persons Scale. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, v31 n1 p72-76 Sep. To examine faking on the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale (ATDP), undergraduates were asked to respond to ATDP, once honestly and once in a manner reflecting the most positive attitude possible. Fake scores were significantly higher than honest scores, indicating a capacity for "saying the right thing" among students not professionally educated in areas of human disability. (Author)…

Gehring, Donald D. (1996). Campus Crime, College Policy, and Federal Laws and Regulations. New Directions for Higher Education, n95 p17-28 Fall. The federal Campus Security Act, an amendment to the Student Consumer Information Act of 1976 and amended by the Sexual Assault Victim's Bill of Rights (1992) and other federal laws, requires that colleges and universities provide substantial information to students and employees. The requirement crosses boundaries of student affairs, academic affairs, human resources, and general administration, requiring coordinated efforts. (MSE)… [Direct]

Kohut, Gary F.; Scheibal, William J. (1991). An Assessment of Computerized Text Editing Programs. Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, v54 n2 p38-42 Jun. Addresses the question of whether text editing programs are successful in taking over the traditional functions of an editor. Compares the editing suggestions made by two of the most popular text editing programs ("RightWriter" and "Punctuation + Style") with those of an experienced editor. Finds that text editing programs are no substitute for human editors. (PRA)…

Stuntzner-Gibson, Denise (1991). Women and HIV Disease: An Emerging Social Crisis. Social Work, v36 n1 p22-28 Jan. Addresses major social issues faced by women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease and explores gender differences in HIV transmission, disease progression, and diagnosis. Discusses how women's sexuality and reproductive rights are affected. Examines specific issues regarding HIV-infected women who use intravenous drugs, women of color, prostitutes, and lesbian and bisexual women. Discusses implications for social work profession. (Author/NB)…

Schneider, Alison (1999). As Threats of Violence Escalate, Primate Researchers Stand Firm. Chronicle of Higher Education, v46 n12 pA16-A18 Nov 12. Scientists doing research on primates are increasingly being subjected to threats and acts of violence from animal rights groups. The intimidation has resulted in many laboratories taking extensive security measures. Some scientists claim, however, that there is no surrogate for animal research in understanding human diseases. There are fears that younger researchers will avoid primate research due to safety concerns. (DB)…

Baym, Geoffrey (2000). Constructing Moral Authority: "We" in the Discourse of Television News. Western Journal of Communication, v64 n1 p92-111 Win. Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication. Examines how journalists construct their authority to tell moralizing stories. Shows how journalists construct a discursive strategy asserting their right to serve as moral agents on two levels: as "institutional we," determining the "facts," and as "representative we" speaking with the voice of community. (SR)…

McGuire, Patricia A. (2000). Catholic Education in the Land of the Free: Teaching Civic Engagement. Momentum, v31 n3 p33-5 Sep-Oct. Discusses seven themes of social justice, and how their application to Catholic education can help schools better align American social systems with Gospel imperatives: (1) the life and dignity of the human; (2) the call of community, and participation; (3) rights and responsibilities; (4) options for the poor; (5) the dignity of work; (6) solidarity; and (7) care for God's creation. (EMH)…

Grementieri, Valerio (1998). Innovation Technology and Higher Education. Higher Education in Europe, v23 n2 p169-75. The current decade has witnessed an unprecedented relationship, in character and impact, between technological innovation and social and economic organization. A new information society has been born, in which services offered by technologies support human activities. This represents both revolution and occupational opportunity. The ability to control and use technologies has become a basic right of citizens and workers. (Author/MSE)…

Mourad, Roger (2001). Education after Foucault: The Question of Civility. Teachers College Record, v103 n5 p739-59 Oct. Examines the relationship of education to conceptions of individual well being within the context of political theory, exploring how beliefs about human nature, rationality, and behavior were developed during the formative period of individual rights and how those beliefs are embedded in educational practices. Foucault's ideas are used to provide a contemporary critical context and contrasted with Marx's treatment of individuals. (SM)…

Sorensen, John (2003). \A Prairie Childhood\ by Edith Abbott: An Excerpt from \The Children's Champion,\ a Biography of Grace Abbott. Great Plains Quarterly, v23 n2 p93-110 Spr. Grace Abbott's courageous struggles–to protect the rights of immigrants, to increase the role of women in government, and to improve the lives of all children–are filled with adventurous tales of the remarkable human ability to seek out suffering and to do something about it. \A Prairie Childhood\ is an excerpt from the Grace Abbott biography entitled \The Children's Champion.\… [Direct]