This study builds on previous research and policy that view teen sports as an educational tool and public health asset. The results highlighted that school-based athletics continued to be the most popular activity provided by high schools in the U.S. and was the only school-based extracurricular activity that showed an increase in participation…

This first-of-its-kind report on gender and high school sports participation, "Progress Without Equity: The Provision of High School Athletic Opportunity in the United States, by Gender 1993-94 through 2005-06," flows from an analysis of high schools that is unprecedented in its national and historical scope. It uses merged data from the Civil…

An increased awareness of the gendered traditions of physical activity portrayed in vintage book series for girls and boys may provide teachers with a deeper understanding of (still) current ideological assumptions affecting female and male participation in sport and recreational activity. This article explores a unique girls' fiction series about…

Analyzes the effect on existing athletic programs of the female high school athlete's legally protectable interest in the benefits of an interscholastic sports program where one is provided for the male athletes. (Author)

The guide is designed to help administrators of intercollegiate athletic programs review policies, procedures, and practices to determine if they are in compliance with Title IX's attendant regulations. The document addresses those areas of intercollegiate athletic program offerings that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has…

The nature and pervasiveness of sex-based inequalities within collegiate athletics are reviewed with regard to constitutional mandates as interpreted by Title IX and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. Special attention is given to the once discredited "separate but equal" doctrine. (LBH)

This government publication covers hearings regarding the amendment to Title IX on prohibition of sex discrimination, referred to as the "Tower Amendment" (Sept. 16-18, 1975). Testimoney by those interested in supporting and defeating this amendment is published in the form of papers, letters and signatures, and indicates the need for…

Argues that the general language of the Title IX statute, together with certain specific features of it, strongly suggests that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare should develop more stringent and demanding regulations based on social policy considerations concerning sex discrimination in intercollegiate sports. Available from Yale…

The purpose of this study was to determine the institutional and athletic characteristics that had the greatest relationship to divisional declarations in selected sports in women's athletic programs and the number of sports offered in women's athletic programs. Institutions were grouped according to similar characteristics, e.g., enrollment,…

A bibliography on collegiate athletics with approximately 400 items is presented. Topics include: sports administration, sports histories, women's athletics, physical education, problems and scandals, sports organizations, sports and health, and references on many specific sports, especially football. (JMD)

As in other educational realms, the courts are asserting more and more authority over interscholastic athletics. A summary of pertinent cases and decisions. (Editors)

Recent developments which may change collegiate athletics are reviewed. They include the congressional investigation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, entailing withdrawal of federal funds for schools practicing discrimination toward women in athletic programs; and tax cuts. (JMD)

A financial analysis of intercollegiate athletics indicates that the programs are excessively deficit-producing and that the financial crisis would exist even if women's athletics were not a factor. Sources of revenues and expenditures are examined and cost control alternatives are suggested. (JMD)

It is suggested that institutional control of intercollegiate athletics has been eroded, partially due to athletic governance structures, federal controls, the transformation of recreational activities to big business, and television. Recommendations for reestablishing institutional authority over intercollegiate athletics are offered. (JMD)

Many physical educators, administrators, and parents argue that it makes little sense to spend time and money building athletic programs for young women when they are not interested in pursuing sports activities. Such an attitude is explored in this Task Force report questioning what roles, if any, physical education teachers have predetermined…