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The WEEA
Digest
The
WEEA Digest is a brief journal offering cutting-edge discussions
of educational theory and research, field-based perspectives, and resource
listings from the Women’s Educational Equity Act Resource Center at EDC.
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New! Equity
and Careers: Progress and Promise
Drawn from extensive research on career development issues and trends
in the 30 years since Title IX was enacted, this digest explores how career
choices--and especially career elimination--begin at an early age. Fostering
ideas about career options in girls, including nontraditional career paths,
needs to begin early on in their schooling.
Equity and Technology: Approaching
Technology
Do males and females think about technology differently? This digest explores
ways to interest girls and women in technology, addresses gender influences
in technological development and applications, and discusses the expanding
field of computer science and applied technologies.
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Digests by Topic
Careers
New! Equity
and Careers: Progress and Promise
Drawn from extensive research on career development issues and trends
in the 30 years since Title IX was enacted, this digest explores how
career choicesand especially career eliminationbegin at
an early age. Fostering ideas about career options in girls, including
nontraditional career paths, needs to begin early on in their schooling.
(16 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 2002
Disability
Connecting Gender and Disability
Summarizes the status of girls and women with disabilities, the challenges
and discrimination they faceas females and as persons with disabilitiesand
how school systems can improve education. (12 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 1999
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Equitable
Classrooms
25 Years of Title IX
A Brief History
Outlines the origins and impact of Title IX and its relationship
to the Women's Educational Equity Act, with a general review of progress
in this field and emerging issues with regard to the legislation.
(12 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 1997
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Education and Immigrant Girls:
Building Bridges Between Cultures
Based on an interview with experts who work with immigrant girls the main
article explores the challenges girls and educatiors face in striving
for equitable education. (16 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 2001
Gender Equity for Males: What
About the Boys?
Explores the issues that boys face both in education and in our society.
We can help boys to reach their full potential by striving for gender
equity in education, thereby increasing their options. (12 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 2000
Title
IX and Sexual Harassment
Discusses how sexual harassment affects both girls and boys,
Title IX requirements, and OCR (Office for Civil Rights) guidance. (12
pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 1998
Single-Sex Education
Critical research that informs the discussion on single-sex education.
Looks at early history, reasons why some advocate for or against it, and
the mixed results for achievement. (12 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 1999
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Gender
Violence
Science,
Math, Engineering,
and Technology
Becoming a Scientist
Science and Equity
Articles by experts from AAAS, the Urban Institute, Georgia Institute
of Technology, and the University of Florida provide a comprehensive overview
of issues for women in science and innovative interventions to open science
careers to women. (12 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 2000
Beyond
Equal Access
Gender Equity in Learning with Computers
Examines gender differences in school computer access, use, and interest;
offers strategies to increase girls' engagement with computers. (12 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 1992
Girls
and Math
Enough is Known for Action
Reviews the decrease in sex differences in math achievement, looks at
what works, and how to institutionalize the successes. (12 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 1991
Equity and Technology:
Approaching Technology
Do males and females think about technology differently? This digest explores
ways to interest girls and women in technology, addresses gender influences
in technological development and applications, and discusses the expanding
field of computer science and applied techologies.
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Teacher
Preparation and
Professional Development
Education
Assessment: Honoring Ways of Knowing
Brings an equity perspective to thinking about authentic assessment,
and looks at how both teaching and assessment might need to change to
improve education outcomes for girls and children of color. (12 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 2000
Blueprinting
Equity
Teacher Preparation
Discusses how to involve educators in efforts to incorporate gender
equity into the classroom. Also addresses multicultural, gender-fair
issues for teacher preparation. (12 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 1996
Middle
School Voices on Gender Identity
Explores what gender means to a sample of 2,000 middle school students.
(12 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 1995
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