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2 Comments Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: Discrimination, Opinion, Type, worse

Racial or learning difficulty/ disability.

I was at college a few years ago on a level 1 computer course for people aged 16-19. As part of the course we had to do numeracy and literacy. We also had to do citizenship and key-skills i.t. We had five different teachers on the course. One who took us for the the main computer stuff, one who took us for touch typing,one who took us for basic numeracy and literary, the one who took us for basic I.t skills and the one who took us for citizenship. Four of those treated everyone the same,…

4 Comments Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: About, arrest, articles about class discrimination, Charge, Class, Discrimination, employer/board, have to, Literacy, literacy rate, literacy rates, Purpose, purpose other, purpose other than, Social, social class discrimination, Than, Would

For what purpose other than social class discrimination would an employer/board ask about an arrest or charge that did not end in a conviction?

Theoretically, we are innocent until proven guilty, correct?

I just moved to Georgia from California and I went to apply for a teaching position. On the application it asked me if I had ever been charged with any offence, felony or misdemeanor, as a juvenile or adult, whether or not it resulted in a conviction. I have taught in Wisconsin, even Hawaii briefly, and of course California, and have never been asked this. I have only gotten asked…

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Tags: at, def, Discrimination, Employers, Employment, EnglishOnly, Facing, Hawaii, Increasingly, Labor, Litigation, National, origin, Over, Rules

National Origin Discrimination, Labor Law, and Employment Law in Hawaii:  Employers Increasingly Facing Litigation over English-Only Rules as More Complaints are Filed with the EEOC

Title VII prohibits discrimination because of “national origin.”  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency charged with the enforcement of Title VII, defines national origin discrimination as the denial of equal employment opportunity because of an individual’s ancestry, place of origin, or because the individual possesses the physical, cultural, or linguistic characteristics of a national origin group.

The EEOC has consistently scrutinized English-Only policies very closely and has taken the position that such policies can be a…

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5 Comments Category: Books
Tags: Accent, at, discriminated for acent, Discrimination, English, Ideology, Language, language discrimination in the united states, States, United

Product Description
Scrutinizing American attitudes toward language, English With an Accent exposes the way in which language is used to maintain and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations.

Rosina Lippi-Green explores language prescription and discrimination in a variety of contexts in today’s society. She examines situations from the judicial system, the media and corporate America, including such instances as court cases that attempt to exclude persons with accents from teaching young children. In the process she reveals how the media works to promote linguistic stereotyping, how employers discriminate on the basis of language use and how the judicial system uses…