Investigates a variety of instructional strategies and teaching methods used in a graduate level multicultural education class. These included autobiographical analysis, role playing, and dialog journals, as well as, more traditional methods such as guest speakers and lectures. Discusses how the insights gained could be used in future research.…

Persuasively argues for a broader and more complex approach to teaching Asian American history. Recommends going beyond issues of immigration, assimilation, and chronological representation to include questions of class, gender, and cultural interrelationships. Describes an undergraduate course that incorporates this approach. (MJP)

Data from a fall 1990 survey of 194,182 freshmen entering 382 2- and 4-year colleges are presented, including information on student and parent demographic characteristics, self-concept, college and career choice, probable major, financial aid sources and amounts, extracurricular activities, political opinions, and personal goals. (MSE)

While on the surface baseball cards may appear to be a mundane object of child's play, they are precious tools for examining U.S. society. Baseball cards not only hold a wealth of information regarding the players they feature they also reveal much about the state of society at the time of their production and the individuals who collect them. In…

Following the 1998 Green Paper on teachers' work, the UK government introduced Threshold Assessment of teachers in England and Wales in 2000. Teachers who met the Threshold standards were rewarded with a pay rise and access to an upper pay spine. At the time ministers gave assurances that equal opportunities would be taken very seriously in the…

Among the communities of critical race theorists and its detractors in education, there is an apparent rift as to what theoretical construct best contributes to the social justice project in education. Conferences and meetings have served as quasi-battle grounds for theorists, activists and scholars to go back and forth about what theoretical…

Fifty-five tables, 31 figures, and text examine enrollment, student characteristics, and student financial aid in Oklahoma public and independent institutions of higher education. The data are organized in the following categories: introduction, student inflow, enrollments, distribution, student progression, transfer of students, enrollment…

The personal and professional attributes, beliefs, interests, and behaviors of secondary social studies teachers were examined. Major sources of data included: a prior study which surveyed a random sample of teachers in six states; a survey of three high schools in the Rochester, New York, area; a publication of the New York State Education…

Fifty-one detailed tables provide information about educational and socioeconomic characteristics of students nationwide. Nursery school and college were the only levels of school with higher enrollment in 1981 than in 1970--88 percent and 45 percent higher, respectively. At the college level, the enrollment of more women and more older students…

The theoretical model upon which this study is based indicates that a person's degree of politication and political efficacy depend upon: a) each other; b) where that person falls on socioeconomic and education scales; c) sex; and, d) race. A person's degree of belligerance (extent of reliance on force, threats, power, etc.) depends similarly on…

These proceedings present testimony from the California Senate Select Committee on Higher Education Admissions and Outreach and the California Senate Select Committee on Higher Education regarding undergraduate admissions at the University of California (UC) in the aftermath of Proposition 209 and California Board of Regents' Special Proposal 1…

This collection of six essays examines the ways in which literature, as a discipline, reflects ongoing scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. In "Rethinking the Discipline of Literature: Gender," Joan E. Hartman presents the results of a Modern Language Association survey that highlights the…

Describes an upper-level undergraduate seminar on race, ethnicity, and social inequality that included an Internet discussion list consisting of over 300 faculty, students, and administrators from around the world. Discusses organizational and pedagogical challenges involved in creating and maintaining the list. (MJP)

Instructors who consider creation of an experiential course in race relations at the university or college level may benefit from information provided in this article. One of the coauthors, a licensed psychologist and pioneer in this type of educational experience, provides insights regarding challenges of the course from an instructor's…

This study focuses on the case of The Heritage Academy (THA), a predominantly white charter school in rural North Carolina. Through a critical race analysis, this article suggests that predominantly white charter schools like THA benefit from colorblind educational policies in a whitestream and white supremacist society. Specifically, this case…