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Prescott, Julie, Ed. – IGI Global, 2016
Diversity in the workforce can be attributed to both a popular, cultural shift and legislative intervention. Despite these forces, discrimination endures in all aspects of Western society from education to employment. Unequal pay and opportunities for promotion are symptoms of a systematic discrimination of individuals based on race and gender.…
Descriptors: Diversity, Racial Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Social Change
Jackson, Sonia; Cameron, Claire – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014
Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care. This book provides a comprehensive account of why this shocking discrepancy exists and outlines ways to address the imbalance. Drawing extensively on new original research, the book examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Adult Education, Higher Education
Martin, Barbara – Trentham Books Ltd, 2011
This captivating book illuminates our understanding of how young children develop gender identities. A two year longitudinal research project on children's own understandings of gender casts new light on how 3 and 4 year old newcomers in early years classes learn rules for gendered behaviour from older children, in their imaginative and…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Play, Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education
Shircliffe, Barbara J. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
This book explores the battle to desegregate public school teachers in the South. It also considers the implications of linking racially balanced school faculties to equal educational opportunities for African American students. This book demonstrates that the legal struggle to desegregate teachers and other school personnel is critical to…
Descriptors: Teacher Integration, School Desegregation, Public School Teachers, Equal Education
Gildersleeve, R. Evely – Peter Lang New York, 2010
"Fracturing Opportunity" demonstrates a simple yet profound idea--that educational opportunity is learned. And if it is learned, then it can be taught and taught more equitably. This book brings sociocultural theories of learning and development to bear on the persistent problems of inequality in college access, and presents an innovative…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Ethnography, Educational Experience, Migrants
Ashcroft, Kate; Bigger, Stephen; Coates, David – 1996
This book examines issues in studying equal opportunity in colleges and universities, especially those in the United Kingdom, and methods for conducting research into equal opportunity issues. It is intended to provide a framework of ideas and starting points for research. Most of the techniques suggested are forms of participant research on a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Action Research, Affirmative Action, College Admission
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Sutherland, Margaret B. – Comparative Education, 1987
Discusses three areas in which prevailing attitudes seem to work against equal opportunities for women: (1) attitudes underlying female choices of certain subjects and occupations; (2) attitudes of society and employers toward women workers; and (3) attitudes which attribute child-care and domestic tasks almost exclusively to females. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Education, Differences, Educational Opportunities
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Arora, Ranjit Kaur – Gender and Education, 1989
Explores equal opportunities policies in the United Kingdom with specific reference to issues of gender and race in education, and examines the practical and political implications of these policies for educational institutions. Considers the interplay of sexism and racism affecting Black women in Britain, especially in their employment as…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Richmond, John W. – Research Perspectives in Music Education: A Journal of the Florida Music Educators Association, 1991
This essay addresses the ethical justification for arts education as a component of equal education. The paper traces evolution of equal education opportunity ideas in general and specifically as equal opportunity for arts education. While it is currently considered inequitable to provide an arts education to some and deny it or provide it in…
Descriptors: Art Education, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Eberts, Randall W.; Stone, Joe A. – 1984
This report investigates six differences in promotions to administrative positions in elementary and secondary education and assesses the influence of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity enforcement. Conclusions are based on longitudinal data from Oregon and New York for thousands of individual educators employed during the 1970's…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Affirmative Action, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Buchser, Linda – 1982
Reviewing literature on educational finance and law, this paper analyzes the rationale for the recent school finance reform movement and recounts the movement's progress from 1965 to 1979. An overview of the problem discusses state equalization programs' ability to provide financial equity and the relationship of financial equity to equal…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Trends
District Court, Houston, TX. Southern District of Texas. – 1984
This Civil Action (C.A.) settlement agreement concerns employment policies (specifically of minorities), student transfers, boundary changes and new school construction, facilities and supplies, instructional programming, the dropout rate, and retention of the Voluntary Interdistrict Education Plan. These concerns are related to the increase of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Bilingual Teacher Aides, Bilingual Teachers, Compliance (Legal)
Strain, Sherry A. – 1985
In 1984 the Texas legislature passed an educational reform bill, House Bill 72 (HB 72). The prime objective of HB 72 was to achieve greater equalization of the state's school finance system; it was intended to affirm vertical and horizontal equity and equal opportunity/wealth neutrality as goals of the state system. This study analyzes the results…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Research
Basit, Tehmina N.; McNamara, Olwen – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2004
Currently in the UK there is much pressure to increase the recruitment and retention of ethnic minority teachers, not only to respond to the continuing shortage, but to develop a teaching force that reflects the diversity in the UK population and provides role models for ethnic minority students. There is, however, little research on how ethnic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Recruitment, Role Models
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Dronkers, Jaap – Sociology of Education, 1993
Compares three critical transitions at the end of elementary school and during secondary education prior to and after educational reform in the Netherlands. Concludes that the educational reform efforts promoted more equal educational opportunities by increased student participation. (CFR)
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Research