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Can Public International Boarding Schools In Ghana Be The Next Educational Reform Movement For Low-Income Urban Minority Public School Students?, Kevin D. Brown Jan 2009

Can Public International Boarding Schools In Ghana Be The Next Educational Reform Movement For Low-Income Urban Minority Public School Students?, Kevin D. Brown

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The past twenty-five years has witnessed dramatic changes in the world, including the rise of international trade, unprecedented movement of people across national borders, tremendous advances in communication technologies and new forms of knowledge. Due to the changes of this magnitude, the American public is aware of new and formidable global and international problems that did not exist before. However, these changes also provide the conditions for applying new solutions to domestic problems that have plagued American society for decades. This Article puts forward an innovative suggestion to a persistent problem of American society: the problem of how to improve …


Now Is The Appropriate Time For Selective Higher Education Programs To Collect Racial And Ethnic Data On Its Black Applicants And Students, Kevin D. Brown Jan 2009

Now Is The Appropriate Time For Selective Higher Education Programs To Collect Racial And Ethnic Data On Its Black Applicants And Students, Kevin D. Brown

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American colleges and universities have traditionally lumped all of their black students into a unified “Black/African/African American" category. However, there is growing evidence that American higher education is witnessing a historic change in the racial and ethnic ancestry of Blacks who are the beneficiaries of affirmative action. Recent studies have pointed out that disproportionately large percentages of Blacks benefiting from affirmative action are foreign-born Black immigrants, their sons and/or daughters, and multiracials. In addition, the number and percentage of blacks approaching college age from these groups will increase substantially in the next five to ten years.

In light of this …


Lessons Learned From Comparing The Application Of Constitutional Law And Anti-Discrimination Law To African Americans In The U.S. And Dalits In India In The Context Of Higher Education, Kevin D. Brown, Vinay Sitapati Jan 2008

Lessons Learned From Comparing The Application Of Constitutional Law And Anti-Discrimination Law To African Americans In The U.S. And Dalits In India In The Context Of Higher Education, Kevin D. Brown, Vinay Sitapati

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In this Article the authors will compare the development of constitutional law and federal anti-discrimination law in the context of higher education of African-Americans in the U.S. and Dalits in India. Both groups suffer from oppression and discrimination based upon a hereditary trait and related to their integration into mainstream society; neither group is completely isolated from the majority population responsible for the discrimination; and African-Americans and Dalits approximate similar percentages of their country's population. Based upon the 2000 census, African-Americans constitute 12.7% of the American populations, and, according to the 1991 Census Report of India, Dalits make up 16.5% …


Teaching The Republican Child: Three Antebellum Stories About Law, Schooling, And The Construction Of American Families, Michael Grossberg Jan 1997

Teaching The Republican Child: Three Antebellum Stories About Law, Schooling, And The Construction Of American Families, Michael Grossberg

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Laboring In The Academic Marketplace: The Case For Tenure, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt Jan 1997

Laboring In The Academic Marketplace: The Case For Tenure, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt

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Bakke In Balance: Some Preliminary Thoughts, Robert M. O'Neil Jan 1979

Bakke In Balance: Some Preliminary Thoughts, Robert M. O'Neil

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God And Government At Yale: The Limits Of Federal Regulation Of Higher Education, Robert M. O'Neil Jan 1975

God And Government At Yale: The Limits Of Federal Regulation Of Higher Education, Robert M. O'Neil

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Academic Freedom -- Its Basic Philosophy, Function, And History, Ralph F. Fuchs Jan 1963

Academic Freedom -- Its Basic Philosophy, Function, And History, Ralph F. Fuchs

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Book Review. Byse, C., And Joughin, L., Tenure In American Higher Education, Ralph F. Fuchs Jan 1959

Book Review. Byse, C., And Joughin, L., Tenure In American Higher Education, Ralph F. Fuchs

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The Dartmouth College Case -- Then And Now, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1934

The Dartmouth College Case -- Then And Now, Hugh Evander Willis

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Why Colleges And Universities?, Hugh Evander Willis Apr 1927

Why Colleges And Universities?, Hugh Evander Willis

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