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Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2009
Nurta Muktar, a 17-year-old refugee of Somali heritage, learned to read this school year at East High School. It likely would not have happened if East High did not provide classes in basic reading skills for English-language learners (ELLs). And the school likely would not have such classes, some Salt Lake City teachers say, if the U.S.…
Descriptors: Afro Asiatic Languages, Civil Rights, Compliance (Legal), Reading Skills
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Young, I. Phillip; Castaneda, Jose M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2008
Background: Pay is an important human resource function that has attracted considerable interest within the professional literature and this study addresses pay discrimination. Purpose(s): To address pay for a particular protected group unaddressed in existing literature (Hispanic-surnamed principals). Setting: The setting for this study is public…
Descriptors: Research Design, Human Capital, Public Schools, Predictor Variables
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Pratt, John H. – Integrated Education, 1973
The complete text of the ruling of U.S. District Judge, John H. Pratt, in Adams v. Richardson, a suit for relief against the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Director of the Office for Civil Rights, delivered on November 16, 1972. (JM)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Desegregation Litigation, Elementary Schools, Federal Aid
Information Agency, Washington, DC. Research and Reference Service. – 1965
The 1965 Federal government publication reviews the status of school desegregation as of that year. It is said that "profound changes" were taking place in the desegregation process from 1963 to 1965. Information is presented about the situation in primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, as well as the extent of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights Legislation, Colleges, Community Attitudes