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News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 14 - May 19, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 13 - April 18, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

No abstract provided.

News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 12 - April 7, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

No abstract provided.

Seniority And Affirmative Action: The Shadow Of Stotts, Drew S. Days Iii

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

The purpose of this paper is to discuss why I think the Reagan administration's avowed commitment to helping only "actual victims" of racial discrimination retards rather than advances the cause of civil rights. I make reference in my title to "seniority" and "the shadow of Stotts" because the current administration is relying upon Supreme Court decisions having to do with seniority, particularly its 1984 opinion in Memphis Firefighters v. Stotts, to justify a wholesale attack upon race-conscious remedies, not only in employment but in education and public contracting as well.

Affirmative Action: Problems And Prospects, James Farmer

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

Affirmative action has had an interesting history. I, with no attempted modesty, claim to have proposed the idea to Lyndon Johnson in either late 1962 or early 1963 when he was vice president. The only person I known who would disagree with me on that is the late Whitney Young, and he is not present to voice his disagreement now. When I reported to the Council on United Civil Rights Leadership, the group that was called the "Big Six" or the "Big Four" by the media, that I had had such a meeting with Vice President Lyndon Johnson and had …

News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 09 - February 10, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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Race And Class In American Race Relations Theory, 1894-1939, Vernon Williams Jr.

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

The purpose of this essay is to identify the origins of the debate between Wilson and Pinkney. The period covered focuses on the years 1894 to 1939 - from the publication of Franz Boas's "Human Faculty as Determined by Race" in the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1894, to the publications of Robert E. Park's "The Nature of Race Relations" in 1939. It is my argument that the parameters of the discussion regarding the progressiveness of race relations in the United States were defined during these years, and that all current theories are but …

Boston School Desegregation: The Fallowness Of Common Ground, Robert A. Dentler

New England Journal of Public Policy

This essay scrutinizes the book by J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, to assess whether it presents a valid and reliable account of the issues, people, and events it chronicles. The substantive core of the book is shown to be the politics of Boston public school desegregation. The parts played by the three families in this event are dramatically portrayed but cannot be corroborated and are not interpreted. The parts played by five major policy leaders, when tested against other evidence, are found to be distorted, questionable legends woven in …

News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 06 - December 9, 1985, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 04 - October 25, 1985, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 03 - October 11, 1985, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 02 - September 20, 1985, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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Howth Castle - Vol. 02, No. 01 - 1985-1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Howth Castle (1985-1993)

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An Approach To Teaching For Critical Thinking In A Community College Health Science Curriculum, Donis Tatro Lewis

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

During a recent seminar on critical thinking at the University of Massachusetts/Boston, I described a workshop I had developed for faculty in a community college dental hygiene program. Later that same evening one of the seminar participants asked me, " ... couldn't one assume that by the time a student reaches the college level -- specifically a dental hygiene program -- there would not be a need to teach critical thinking?" Having worked with dental hygiene students for five years, I knew that this assumption could not be made.

Getting Power Back: Court Restoration Of Executive Authority In Boston City Government, Marcy M. Murninghan

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article chronicles some of the events that occurred when a state and a federal court attempted to disengage from active jurisdiction over two Boston public systems: the public schools and the Boston Housing Authority (BHA). It makes three proposals which, if enacted, would help to keep the courts out of day-to-day management of municipal operations. It also makes some generalizations about the court-agency interplay which are relevant to the postremedial phase of institutional reform litigation. The author uses the term restorative law to describe this court-controlled process of returning power to the executive branch.

Teaching--From Occupation To Profession: The Sine Qua Non Of Educational Reform, Bernard R. Gifford

New England Journal of Public Policy

Many problems have been blamed for the crisis in public education. This article argues that the teaching occupation as it currently exists is one problem whose solution promises to yield significant consequences in terms of pupil learning. That solution, according to the author, is to restructure the teaching occupation to bring about a greater appreciation of and respect for teaching as a high-level activity that supports self-evaluative behavior — a professional consciousness that encourages teachers to see themselves as evolving practitioners capable of learning from errors, rather than as nonreflective paraprofessionals armed with a set of error-proof teaching methods applicable …

News & Views - Vol. 03, No. 14 - June 12, 1985, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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Community-Based Housing: Potential For A New Strategy, Rachel G. Bratt

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

While the housing problem in the United States has changed since Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed that "one-third of the nation is ill-housed," it has by no means disappeared. For most low-income people, and to a lesser extent for moderate income people, housing still presents formidable problems.

Academics and housing analysts recognize four major aspects of the housing problem: affordability (ratio of housing costs to income), adequacy (including quality and overcrowding), neighborhood conditions, and availability. Over the past decade, the nature of the country's housing problem has undergone some important transformations.

Until ten years ago the phrase "housing problem" conjured up …

News & Views - Vol. 03, No. 11 - May 11, 1985, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 03, No. 09 - March 22, 1985, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 03, No. 08 - February 25, 1985, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 03, No. 06 - February 08, 1985, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 03, No. 07 - January 17, 1985, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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The Demography Of New England: Policy Issues For The Balance Of This Century, George S. Masnick

New England Journal of Public Policy

New England's rapidly aging population, its traditionally low fertility rate, and the fact that net migration from other regions and abroad should continue to be close to zero means that only very slow population growth will characterize the region for the balance of this century. Nevertheless, New England's demographic metabolism is exceptionally dynamic: (1) the numbers of different age groups are growing at very different rates; (2) a redistribution of population is occurring from the southern to northern tier states; (3) within each state population is dispersing into non-metropolitan areas; and (4) metropolitan areas, both central and suburban, are quickly …

News & Views - Vol. 03, No. 03 - November 14, 1984, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 03, No. 01 - October 4, 1984, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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Awakening Creative Behavior: Contributions From The Rudolf Steiner Method, Carla Thersa Mattioli

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

In my efforts to understand the fundamental elements of Rudolf Steiner’s (Waldorf) Educational Philosophy for the purposes of writing this thesis, I realized early on that the process of attaining such understanding would necessarily require much more than reading and comprehension on an abstract, intellectual level. In order that I might experience the principles of Waldorf Education in motion, as they were designed to be experimented, I would need to immerse myself into the experience of the arts and self-study with my mind, physical body and emotions, as well as to read and study the works of those how understand …

News & Views - Vol. 02, No. 08 - March 8, 1984, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 02, No. 04 - December 2, 1983, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

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News & Views - Vol. 02, No. 02 - November 2, 1983, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

No abstract provided.