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  Addressing Discrimination in School Matters

  1/9/09 - Sullivan, Amanda L., Equity Alliance at ASU

  "Every student has the right to an education free from discrimination that provides high-quality, equitable opportunities to learn. Unfortunately, sometimes individuals or systems may act in ways that violate this right. Discrimination occurs when people are treated unequally or less favorably than others because of some real or perceived characteristic. In every community and every school, discrimination exists in both intended and unintended ways. It may take the form of direct, overt...

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  Legal Rights: The Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education

  1/10/09 - Kevin Welner, Equity Alliance at ASU

  Special education in the United States is largely controlled by federal statutes (that is, laws). These statutes cover two related issues: the guarantee of a free and appropriate public education and anti-discrimination laws protecting students with disabilities. The laws governing special education and overrepresentation issues in particular, can be intimidating. Lost in the mishmash of federal and state laws and regulations, however, are some fairly basic rules. This practitioner brief...

• Beyond Brown v. Board of Education: The Need to Remedy the Achievement Gap

  1/1/02 - Klein, Dora W.

  The achievement gap between black and white students, in existence despite Brown v. Board of Education, must be remedied. In general, desegregation decrees issued under the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education fail to adequately address disparate academic achievement. Today, as many desegregation cases come to an end, the ultimate goal of Brown v. Board of Education to create public schools that prepare all children to succeed in life may be best served by attempting to eliminate racial...

• Confronting Racism in Literacy Education and Research

  1/1/05 - Edmondson, Jacqueline

  Reviews the book "Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning After Brown v. Board of Education," by Catherine Prendergast (2003). Closing the achievement gap is a central and explicit aim of current federal decisions. The achievement gap has direct and specific implications for literacy education and research. By linking reading with eventual success in school and other aspects of life, the Bush administration and Congress continue the assumption that reading well will guarantee...

• Counterfeit Social Capital and Mexican-American Underachievement

  1/1/03 - Ream, Robert K.

  A critical issue facing U.S. schools and one with broad social implication is the persistent disparity in educational achievement between racial/ethnic groups. The achievement gap may be particularly pronounced for Mexican-Americans who constitute the vast majority of U.S. Latinos and are among the most educationally at risk of all Latino subgroups. By employing mixed-methods research techniques, this study shows that social network instability accompanying high mobility rates may contribute...

• Double discrimination: Issues and services for people with learning difficulties from black and ethnic minority communities.

  1/1/90 - Baxter, C., Poonia, K., Ward, L., & Nadirshaw, Z.
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  Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children: Labeling Emotions

  1/18/09 - G. Joseph , P. Strain, M. M. Ostrosky

  This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments.Emotional literacy is the ability to identify...

• Gender Disparity in Science Education: The Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

  1/1/04 - Tindall, Tiffany, Hamil, Burnette

  Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments prohibits sex discrimination in schools. However, research conducted since this time has consistently revealed that gender discrimination in schools remains, especially in the areas of science and mathematics. Girls are not receiving the same quality, or even quantity, of education as their male classmates. Over the past 20 years, a large body of international scholarly literature has developed to address gender disparity in science and science...

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• Measuring Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education

  1/1/03

  A special section on measuring racial disparities and discrimination in education is presented. Articles discuss the degree to which racial disparities in education are the result of racial discrimination; the formal legal definitions of race discrimination in education, how those definitions are applied in various contexts and cases, and the role that social science evidence has played and could play in the cases; racial discrepancies in education, with particular attention to those that...

• Measuring Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Elementary and Secondary Education: An Introduction

  1/1/03 - Dabady, Marilyn

  Part of a special section on measuring racial disparities and discrimination in elementary and secondary education. A brief preview of the articles contained in the special section is provided. The articles were originally presented at the National Research Council Workshop on Measuring Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Elementary and Secondary Education, which was held in July 2002.

• Putting the "affirm" into affirmative action: Preferential selection and academic performance

  1/1/00 - Brown, Ryan P., Charnsangavej, Tonyamas, Keough, Kelli A., Newman, Matthew L., Rentfrow, Peter J.

  Two studies explored the relation between academic performance and preferential selection. In Study 1, female participants were led to believe that they had been selected to be leaders in a team problem-solving task because of their gender, because of their gender and ability, or at random. Results showed that women who believed they had been selected because of their gender performed significantly worse on a subsequent problem-solving test than women who believed they had been selected at...

• Race, class, and educational opportunity: Trends in the socioilogy of education

  1/1/95 - Epps, Edgar G.

  Reviews 52 articles, published 1965–1995, on the effect of social class on educational opportunity for African Americans. Social allocation processes in schools, the relationship of poverty to academic achievement, and educational attainment are considered. The presence of a racial gap in education is also discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA )

• Race, School Achievement, and Educational Inequality: Toward a Student-Based Inquiry Perspective

  1/1/07 - Wiggan, Greg

  Over the past four decades, there have been numerous discussions on student achievement and school failure. Within this time, the debate over the causes and consequences of racial differences in achievement has been at the heart of the nation's social and political life. The author discusses the major developments in achievement research over the past century and examines the foremost explanations given for racial differences in school performance, namely, genetic deficiency, social class...

• Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education: What Do We know, How Do We Know It, and What Do We Need to Know?

  1/1/03 - Farkas, George

  This paper reviews what we have learned about racial discrepancies in education, with particular attention to those that might be attributable to discrimination. Empirical studies have found that, on average, African American, Latino, and American Indian children arrive at kindergarten or first grade with lower levels of oral language, prereading, and premathematics skills, as well as lesser general knowledge, than that possessed by White and Asian American children. African American...

• Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education: What Do We Know, How Do We Know It, and What Do We Need to Know?

  1/1/03 - Farkas, George

  This paper reviews what we have learned about racial discrepancies in education, with particular attention to those that might be attributable to discrimination. Empirical studies have found that, on average, African American, Latino, and American Indian children arrive at kindergarten or first grade with lower levels of oral language, prereading, and premathematics skills, as well as lesser general knowledge, than that possessed by White and Asian American children. African American...