Despite the changing demographics of the nation and a growing appreciation for diversity and inclusion as drivers of excellence in science, engineering, and medicine, Black Americans are severely underrepresented in these fields. Racism and bias are significant reasons for this disparity, with detrimental implications on individuals, health care…

The "International Society for the Social Studies (ISSS) Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2016 proceedings: (1) The Emergence of Social Studies in Trinidad and Tobago (Leela Ramsook); (2) Opinions of…

This report summarizes a seminar organized by Great Britain's National Union of Students for Afro-Caribbean and Asian students in nonadvanced further education (FE). The seminar was designed to facilitate a discussion about various aspects of participants' experiences in further education. An introduction provides background, discusses the…

The history of the social, legal, and educational aspects of equal opportunity and equal results are outlined, and the rift between the two principles is described. Equal opportunity laws work, especially when enforced expeditiously, and are supported by most Americans. Equal results laws are a failure and counterproductive. (Author/AL)

Thirty years after the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown versus The Board of Education of Topeka, 1954, this paper discusses generally the impact of the Brown decision on education. It presents five major "lessons" suggested by the history of school desegregation. (1) The attack on bigotry and injustice must be fought on all fronts--with…

The Committee on National Statistics convened a conference in October 1979 to begin to examine the question of how discrimination and equity in education can be measured. The 10 participants represented a wide range of disciplines, and the 15 representatives of federal agencies included both producers and users of indicators of equity. Background…

This paper presents proceedings of a 2000 conference on the disproportionate number of African American children in out-of-home placements. The objectives of the lecture and issues forum were to provide a forum where people concerned with the welfare of African American children and families in Minnesota could discuss concerns; to promote…

This paper presents the purpose, format, topics of seminar sessions, and participant recommendations of a conference on educational testing processes and their relation to blacks. The conference was held to familiarize participants with research data demonstrating the fallacies and inconsistencies inherent in the testing process as it relates to…

The central purpose of the conference was to present and discuss judicial decisions and trends and their implications for and applications to the posture of academic decision making. The issues of concern were questioned and examined not from a philosophical or sociological point of view but in light of court decisions and precedents. The document…

This report from the 1997 Aspen Institute seminar concerns how demographic changes in American will affect Hispanic Americans' role in the business community. Section 1, "Lashes: Back, Front, and Sideways" (Harold Hodgkinson), describes pervasive national pessimism over demographic change and documents universal backlash to that change…

This is a collection of papers and research reports presented at a conference that focused on mental health issues and on individual, organizational, and community competence in relation to institutional racism. The report is divided into five sections. Section 1 discusses theoretical models of racism and community competence (community…

This proceedings comes from a conference whose purpose was to provide a vehicle for thoughtful discourse and analysis of such Hispanic American issues as education; access to health care; and community viability and the environment as viewed by Latino theorists, activists, and the Hispanic members of Congress. The discussions included the…

Workshops by the Association of American Colleges that provided faculty and administrators the opportunity to discuss racism in the classroom and to become sensitized to problems encountered by black students are described. Seven institutional case studies that describe campus projects are also provided. In addition to promoting discussion of…

The European Forum for Child Welfare (EFCW) is committed to promoting the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention's views underpin and influence the work program of the EFCW. The 1994 EFCW Conference concentrated on articles within the Convention whereby mobility within Europe may have a…

This collection of papers deals with various aspects of the black female experience in America. "The Black Woman in Transition" discusses the effects of sexism and racism on black women with particular reference to employment and education; it is noted that black women, in comparison with other groups in society, suffer a proportionately higher…