Over the years, the nursing educational system has prepared nurses for the many settings in which health care is delivered. As health care shifts from a fragmented system of disparate providers and payers to integrated management systems, nurses and other health care professionals are experiencing tremendous changes. The nursing education system…

Contends that American schools have evolved not as a part of pursuit of equality but rather to meet the needs of capitalist employers and to provide a mechanism for social control in the interests of political stability; the school system is pervaded by class inequalities which have shown little sign of diminishing over the last half-century. (RJ)

Argues that school tracking systems discriminate against ethnic minorities and deliberately channel them into low paying, low skilled jobs. (KG)

Examines the intersection of affirmative action with educational attainment based on meritorious achievement. Also highlights the confluence of affirmative action and educational mobility for graduating high school students. Seeks to frame conceptions of diversity from a historical perspective; address diversity in relation to educational, social,…

Plans for an international database that would furnish university officials with information about educational systems, institutions, and academic credentials around the world are discussed. The Trans Regional Academic Mobility and Credential Evaluation would be on a computer at the National University Computer Center in Montpellier, France. (MLW)

A collaborative group of 25 Northeast Ohio nursing deans/directors has developed an access model to provide new education and career mobility pathways into nursing. Model components describe the routes of licensed practical nurse to registered nurse and registered nurse to bachelor of science in nursing. Cost effectiveness and equity are…

The assumption is made that opportunity means a chance to participate, if one chooses, in the intellectual, economic and personal rewards available most readily through mastering the skills, such as literacy and numeracy, that are important in at least one of the viable cultures that make up the society. Historically, the members of some groups,…

In response to numerous complaints from evening college students across the country, a study on transfer of college credits was sanctioned by the United States Association of Evening Students (USAES). The purpose of this report is to emphasize and make administrators, deans, and faculty of institutions of higher education aware of problems…

An overview of Asian immigration history into the United States is used to illustrate the successful advances made by Asian Americans in employment and political representation in this country. It is argued that the key to Asian American success and upward mobility is education. (EB)

Notes that the success of the southern and eastern European immigrant groups who crowded into the United States before World War I is as unexplained as it is astonishing. (Author/AM)

This booklet is a guide to the process of transferring college credits from one institution of higher education to another. First, it identifies the factors that affect college transfer, including college and/or state policies on transfer of credits, college residency requirements, comparability of courses, grade received in a course, and…

This paper introduces a system of Program Alignment that Community Colleges for International Development, Inc. (CCID) member institutions across Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States of America can use to facilitate a system of credit transfer. The rationale for this project is drawn from the increasing importance of…

In this country, immigration continues and provides our society with a constant source of cultural and ethnic richness. Article presents the case for immigrants, their education, and the recognition that to endorse cultural pluralism is to endorse no model American. (Author/RK)