Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to male or female teachers. In contrast to previous work at the primary and secondary school level, our…

In this article, the authors present a study of experienced faculty's beliefs about the assessment of interdisciplinary student work. The study focuses on faculty's close analysis of student work produced in interdisciplinary courses, such as integrative final papers, written examinations, and capstone presentations. The authors begin by reviewing…

Describes the experiences of an organizational training workshop conducted for the staff of a reconstituted school, i.e. a school which had been reorganized in terms of personnel, grade patterns, instructional patterns, and student bodies as a result of the desegregation process. (Author/JM)

In this report, progress made since 1975 in the desegregation of faculty and staff of schools in Jefferson County, Kentucky, is described in light of the Singleton standard. Although overall progress towards teacher and administrator desegregation is evidenced, it is shown that black teachers are still significantly underutilized in the high…

From an educational standpoint, the most serious question that arises from faculty desegregation is the effect that negative or fearful emotional conditions among teachers will have on the children with whom they must work. As part of a larger project to study teacher needs, an investigation was conducted into teacher attitudes towards their…

A white teacher in a local all-black school in Bay Street, Washington, D.C., speaks about her experiences with her students, the school, and the neighborhood. (AM)

CALIFORNIA'S STATE POLICY IS TO RECOMMEND QUALIFIED PERSONS FOR EMPLOYMENT REGARDLESS OF AGE, MARITAL STATUS, RELIGIOUS CREED, NATIONAL ORIGIN, OR ETHNIC BACKGROUND. THE COMMISSION ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES HAS MADE STUDIES ON TEACHER HIRING PRACTICES FOR THE LAST 3 YEARS. PROGRESS IS BEING MADE IN FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST…

The objectives of this institute were to provide: a community forum; and unhurried setting; a team approach for experienced teachers to share knowledge; community analysis; and, service for more teachers from a larger geographic area in their pursuit of good human relations between black and white school personnel. Large group demonstrations were…

This report is concerned with 3 major problems. The answers to these problems were obtained from the results of 2 surveys. A. The two most serious problems faced by the cross-over teachers (teachers teaching children who differ racially from themselves) in the sample, in rank order, were: discipline and classroom control; and unfamiliarity with…

Using Taeuber's index of dissimilarity" it was found that, although the integration of instructional staff members has substantially increased, the segregation of students has been maintained at a high level, although whether these effects were planned is indeterminable. (Author/JM)

Reports the progress of court ordered desegregation of Mississippi public schools as observed during a week-long trip in Winter, 1969. (JM)

Programs assisted by the Civil Rights Act, Title IV, were based on problems presumed to be the kind that transfer teachers would encounter. The most pressing problems selected from a forced-choice list centered around the words fear" and isolation." Recommendations for improvement of teacher training and orientation are suggested. (DM)

Comments on issues of discrimination in foreign language departments which were debated at a session of the 1980 MLA meeting in Houston. Focuses particularly on the preference for hiring native speakers rather than American-born instructors, showing that educational philosophy does not justify this preference. (MES)