Once again, thank you for the opportunity to comment on this matter. If
it can only be three strategies. . . Make them the following:
Find ways to drive home the point that girls who have babies
are usually the ones left alone to bring them up. Find ways to have them
experience
caring around 15 pounds of sugar or flour 24 hours a day for one week, help
them
calculate the costs of dippers and formula for one year, help
them calculate what a person with a high school diploma earns
compared with what a college educated person earns.
Make certain that boys know the important role that fathers
play in children's development.
Demonstrate to both boys and girls that knowing things about
art and technology and literature, and science and history is fun.
Knowing things makes a difference in peoples lives, differences
that are practical, and spiritual.
Let students know that we want them in our schools. We want to
determine what they already know so that we can affirm it and
facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge. We want them to know that
learning something fast does not mean that one knows it better than
someone who learns more slowly. We want students to know that there is
no teaching unless there is learning.
"Bauman; Raquel"
<rbauman@lhs.lowell.k12.ma.us>
-----Original Message-----
From: Liz Homer [mailto:lizlansing@mindspring.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 2:57 PM
Subject: [EDEQUITY]More strategies for achieving educational equity
The criteria for all strategies should include consideration of whether
the proposed course of action will detract or build partnership between
females and males at home, at work, and/or at school.
1. Create systemic change. i.e., to increase enrollment in vocational
technology, redesign the curriculum so that it is so significant that it
will be required to be taken by all students, boys and girls.
2. Make gender equity a key component of School Improvement and Safety
programs.
3. Address sexual harassment at all grade levels. Teach children
strategies for peaceful interactions. Make sure that both girls and
boys are being schooled in a supportive, caring environment.
Liz
<lizlansing@mindspring.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: "lpurring" <lpurring@earthlink.net>
Subject: [EDEQUITY] strategies for achieving educational equity
Hi, I'm looking for responses from this list to the question "What three
strategies for achieving educational equity do you consider most
important today?" I would like to include some of these responses, duly
credited, in an international conference paper on this subject; I will
contact you off list for permission to quote.
Thanks very much!
Linda Purrington,
Title IX Advocates,
lpurring@earthlink.net
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