8 Current Issues in Social Policy: Education, Employment, and Family

Introduction to Current Issues in Social Policy: Education, Employment, and Family … 391

PRIMARY SOURCES

Executive Order 12432 … 392
Ronald Reagan, 1983

Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 … 394
U.S. Congress, 1989

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 … 396
Tony Coelho, 1990

Georgia Plan Would Give Top Students Free Tuition … 401
Joye Mercer and Scott Jaschik, 1992

The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher… 405
John Taylor Gatto, 1992

Security Is Main Theme of a Spate of New Laws… 409
Anonymous, 1993

Dealing with Sex Offenders … 411
Anonymous, 1994

Affirmative Action's Long Record … 415
Judy Mann, 1995

One Nation…Indivisible … 418
Herb Block, 1977

No. 60. An Act Relating to Equal Educational Opportunity … 422
State of Vermont Legislature, 1997

Homeschooling … 426
Isabel Lyman, 1998

Student Loans: A Slippery Lifeline … 431
Burton Bollag, 2001

The New Freedom Initiative … 435
George W. Bush, 2001

Abstinence-Only Initiative Advancing… 439
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, 2002

School Set Aside for Hawaiians Ends Exclusion to Cries of Protest.. 442
Adam Liptak, 2002

College Is Already Affordable, Likely for Most Recipients … 446
Andrea Jones, 2003

Lies, Distortions and School Choice … 450
Neal McCluskey, 2003

CWLA Testimony for the Hearing on the Implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act … 452
Child Welfare League of America, 2003

California Workers' Compensation System … 457
California Department of Industrial Relations, 2004

Safety and Stability for Foster Children … 462
MaryLee Allen and Mary Bissell, 2004

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" (Resung by Science) … 465
Kaplan Thaler Group, 2004

Whatever It Takes, Don't Let Your Friends Drop Out … 469
Unknown, 2005

For Parents Seeking a Choice, Charter Schools Prove More Popular Than Vouchers… 471
Sam Dillon, 2005

The President's Physical Fitness Challenge… 475
Anonymous, 2005

School Vouchers: The Wrong Choice for Public Education … 476
Anonymous, 2001

State Seeks to Block "No Child Left Behind" … 480
Anonymous, 2006

Your Taxes … 483
David Cay Johnston, 2006