While I was initially confused about how this text might relate to a course on special education, it soon became clear that racism, like ADD and LD, imposes a severe limitation on the ability of many students to learn in a typical classroom. ... It is interesting to me that we have a number of clinically recognized "special needs" which demand accommodations of various kinds in the classroom. Each of these needs is to some extent recognized by the general public as legitimate, while at the same time is viewed with suspicion by others. ... The textbook we are reading in this class mentioned...

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Three white students are challenging the school's admission policies as unconstitutional racial discrimination. ... In order to discuss affirmative action, it needs to be defined first. ... The member of the minority background is being favored, and given special treatment, just based on his/her background. ... The University has not even met the student and is already giving him or her preferential treatment. ... A person should be give special treatment based on who he/she is. ...

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As these students work, the white students still have the feelings that they should be accorded protection in a special way. ... The effectiveness of the teacher needs to be improved. This needs not only to be done to the teachers who are already in the profession, but also those who are attending the colleges for education. Those recruited should be the top students for better results during their time in the profession. The education sector is very vital for every country's economy; it needs to be well improved so as to provide better citizens who live to see their dreams (Haycock, 14)....

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The idea of affirmative action was suitable in the time period in which it was written, but times have changed and the law needs to change in cooperation. ... While I do believe something needs to be done, I do not think affirmative action should be expunged all together, but instead revised to get back to its original intentions. ... Proposition 209 was added to the California Constitution to solve the problem and is a perfect example of what needs to happen on a national level. ... No person shall receive special pension because of their ethnicity, gender, or race. ... Also admittance into s...

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In other scenarios, minority students who apply to colleges around the U.S simply get accepted because of their cultural background, rather than grades and qualifications like they do to the Caucasian students. ... I feel that a person should be judged and characterized solely on their intelligence or any special ability they poses, not by their color of their skin or their cultural back grounds. ... For there can be a program that can prepare and even train minority high school students to go to college and meet the same standards that of a Caucasian student. ... Society needs to rid...

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The brief says that diversity in higher education prepares students to be great leaders of this nation. In addition, students from diverse backgrounds bring to school, "experiences, outlooks, and ideas that enrich the training of the student body and better equip its graduates to render with understanding their vital service to humanity." The Fortune 500 brief gave insight to the court about the real life needs for such a program, but the underlining message was that America's global competitiveness relies on diverse student bodies at colleges and universities. ... As reported by th...

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"Immigrant and refugee parents said their children face discrimination at school from students and teachers alike" (Garrett 289). ... From tactless questions to physical altercations, an immigrant student will endure the abuse that comes from culturally inept community members. ... America is the home of the free, and that is what attracts many immigrants; therefore, America needs to improve the availability of ESL education. ... Moreover, the children taking these classes would not have to deal with excess ridicule for taking special classes to be able to speak and write in the ...

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Although certain studies have shown that both working managers and students consistently rated that organizations hire minorities that are less competent and receive a lower salary than those that are not associated with affirmative action. ... With this companies have discovered that people enjoy a work place that is accepting and that meets all of their personal needs and goals. ... These companies asses their needs and make changes to enforce a capable workforce. ... Many organizations have been accommodating special needs such as child care. ...

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c) NEED: Companies that accommodate the special needs of the demographically diverse workforce will become more appealing places to work and will thereby reduce turnover costs. ... Classroom studies have repeatedly shown that students live up-or down-to their teacher's expectations. ... Diversity in workforce is growing in all countries special USA, Canada and Europe. ...

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The well renowned professor of law at Yale, Peter Schuck described affirmative action as "A program in which people who control access to important social resources offer preferential access to those resources for particular groups that they think need special treatment" (Schuck 5.) ... Another example of preferential treatment of minorities is when students are seen as being admitted into academic institutions based solely on their race, despite that their academic score are drastically lower than standards. Along with this process comes the low regard for the minority student popul...

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The change now ensured that even if only part of an institution was being given any kind of monies to fund their needs, then any kind of sexual discrimination is outlawed in any part of the entire institution. ... The major problem with complaining about colleges and universities discriminating in sports is that funding reports were not available to students. ... The students argued that the two women's teams combined cut $62,000 from the women's sports budget while the two men's teams only amounted to a $16,000 detraction from the men's budget. ... The students" argument...

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Affirmative Action Equality for All? For the past one hundred and fifty years, the fight against discrimination has been a long, hard, and vastly debated topic. Many people thank the pioneering ideas and hard work from various minority and women organizations for enriching this nation with its diverse workforce. While at the same time, many others claim that affirmative action is destroying what is left of our independent, self-merited natures. Forty years ago, minorities were predominantly confined to low paying jobs with little to no hope for advancement, and women were widely held to be...

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Tribunals The EOC has looked at 54 employment tribunal decisions, in sexual harassment cases that were heard between 1998 and 2001, to see what those cases revealed. Successful cases The employee Thirty-four cases were successful. In three of those cases the person making the complaint was male. In most cases the harassment began while the person bringing the complaint had been working for that employer for less than one year, and their work tended to be low paid (e.g carers, shop and factory workers, office staff). Shift work was a factor in a third of cases. ...

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