Re: Your dream research on educational equity...

Elizabeth Homer (lizlansing@mindspring.com)
Wed, 01 Jul 1998 19:01:00 -0500


My first choice for more research would be in the area of vocational
education, especially trade and industry programs, but across the
board as well. Above all else, I would like to see more young women
making better career choices in voc tech career areas (so that they
can be economically self sufficient if necessary) and young men who
are more accepting and welcoming of women into these kinds of jobs
(whether in the classroom setting or workplace.)

I would like to know if there is a disproportional relationship
between the students who take remedial education (developmental
education) when they attend community colleges and the students who
took vocational education in high school (you would have to know the
program and the number of semesters they took it.)

I would like to know if there is a disproportional relationship
between the people who are on welfare and the students who took
vocational education in high school.

I would like to know the actual cost of each high school vocational
program as compared to a liberal arts high school program on a
state-wide basis.

I would like to know the relationship of the high school program a
woman took and her choice of field in voc-tech at the community
college level.

I would like to know why women continue to make stereotyped voc-tech
choices at the community college level (I just looked at Michigan's
most recent community college data - very disappointing.)

I would like to know the female/male enrollment patterns in tech prep.

Liz Homer
lizlansing@mindspring.com

Alexa Marie Adamo wrote:
>
> Dear Equity Experts,
>
> If you could have a graduate student do research on educational equity for
> you, for free, what research questions would you want answered?


new message to this message