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Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Education, 2023
This collection of resources for postsecondary institutions is designed to assist in planning for a successful and equitable return to schools and campuses. The resources include fact sheets, Q&As, letters to educators, and other materials explaining the obligations that postsecondary schools have under the federal civil rights laws enforced…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Civil Rights Legislation, Educational Legislation, Sex Fairness
Jacqueline M. Nowicki – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
Federal data show that many girls are struggling across almost all measures of well-being--including substance use, experiences of violence, mental health, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Girls' well-being can be affected by their experiences in public schools, and the detrimental effects of removing students from the classroom for discipline…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Racial Differences, Racism, Public Schools
Nina Besser Doorley; Salma Elakbawy; Afet Dundar – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2023
Earning a college degree has long been critical to unlocking many high-paying jobs -- and, as a result, to economic mobility and security. Increasingly, however, the traditional "norm" of a college student--one who enrolls straight out of high school, receives some support from their parents, lives on campus, and does not have…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Postsecondary Education, Student Needs
Stauroswky, Ellen J.; Flowers, Courtney L.; Buzuvis, Erin; Darvin, Lindsey; Welch, Natalie – Women's Sports Foundation, 2022
June 23, 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX. This federal civil rights law has been credited with profoundly changing education in the United States by barring sex discrimination in the nation's schools. Title IX, along with other equity laws, helped to unlock access to educational and athletic opportunities, paving the way…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Sex Fairness, Gender Discrimination
Hayes, Annamarie G. – 1977
The Training Institute for Desegregated Education (TIDE), initiated as a response to requests for services from the Detroit public schools, has as its main purpose the reduction and elimination of problems related to discrimination by race and sex and the desegregation of Detroit schools. This purpose is to be accomplished through inservice…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Inservice Education, Interschool Communication
League of Women Voters of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1976
Several educational issues that are currently in the spotlight are discussed in this publication. They include: school desegregation, pregnant girls, teenage mothers, discipline, children with special needs, sex discrimination and Title IX, Title I -- Compensatory Education, privacy and the right to records, and racism and sexism in text…
Descriptors: Bias, Compensatory Education, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation