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We regret that due to the end of our federal contract, we can no longer distribute most WEEA products. Please continue to visit this site, however, as we work to make more and more of our collection available electronically. We will continue to distribute single print copies of our WEEA Digests while supplies last--contact us at WEEActr@edc.org or call us at 617-618-2745. Thank you for your patronage!


 

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.

Please view, download, use and share any of the following materials. (Some material is in Adobe Acrobat format,"pdf." An Adobe Acrobat viewer for pdf can be downloaded for FREE. )

NOTE: Permission is given to duplicate and use the materials but not to sell or to modify them. Credit must be given to the WEEA Equity Resource Center at EDC, when the material is quoted.

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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 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. (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 face—as females and as persons with disabilities—and 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

Educating Against Gender-Based Violence
Offers a clear definition of gendered violence and its roots. (12 pp.)
WEEA Equity Resource Center, 1992

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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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