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Meier, Kenneth J.; Stewart, Joseph, Jr. – 1991
This book presents an in-depth examination of 142 U.S. school districts (containing at least 5,000 students and 5 percent Hispanic enrollment) in order to understand Hispanic inequities in education and what can be done to correct these inequities. Chapter 1 presents political theory of educational policy. Chapter 2 presents an overview of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Attainment, Educational Discrimination, Educational History
Thomas, Gail E., Ed. – 1981
The conditions and experiences of black students in higher education in the 1970s are addressed in 27 essays. The essays are categorized in terms of: history and profile; admissions and access; enrollment, academic experience, and career choice; black higher educational survival; recruitment and retention; and structural policies. Among the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Access to Education
Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, Berkeley, CA. – 1979
Rising youth unemployment has been arousing increasing concern in nearly all the industrial democracies, while it has become more clear throughout the 1970's that prolongation of schooling has brought severe problems of adjustment for young people who are being held in school through a combination of parental and societal pressures, and are not…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Change Strategies, Community Services
Direct linkPowell, Justin J.W. – Paradigm Publishers, 2006
This book offers a comparative and historical account of the rise of special education over the twentieth century in the United States and Germany. This institutional analysis demonstrates how categorical boundaries, professional groups, social movements, education and social policies shaped the schooling of children and youth with disabilities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, Educational Change, Educational Needs
Altbach, Philip G., Ed.; Lomotey, Kofi, Ed. – 1991
This collection of essays addresses the need for continued research in race-related issues on college campuses. The book examines the causes and the impact of campus racial tensions by studying some key university case studies and by investigating some of the underlying elements of the crisis. Essays and their authors are as follows: "The Racial…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Case Studies, College Admission
Benet, James, Ed.; Daniels, Arlene Kaplan, Ed. – 1980
Spurred on by such discussions of education as Jenk's "Inequality" and Coleman's controversial pronouncements on desegregation orders and "white flight," this anthology focuses on the efficacy of educational reform. The articles were compiled from two issues of the journal "Social Problems." The introductory essay by…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Bilingualism, Black Students, College Faculty
