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Peer reviewedMead, Julie F. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2003
Provides brief review of single-gender programs in public elementary and secondary schools; discusses Equal Protection Clause of 14th Amendment and Title IX; analyzes the legality of single-gender programs; highlights several policy issues regarding the constitutionality of such programs. (Contains 2 tables and 42 references.)(PKP)
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Brown, Frank; Russo, Charles J. – School Business Affairs, 1999
Reviews single-sex schools' history and legal status. Explores constitutional dimensions of gender-based discrimination delineated in five leading cases (in Philadelphia, New York City, Detroit, Mississippi, and Virginia). Due to claims of Equal Protection Clause and/or Title IX violations, such schools are unlikely to proliferate. (20 references)…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Peer reviewedSaferstein, Bennett L. – University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 1993
Attempts to develop a theory of separate but equal single-sex education that respects equal protection, drawing on a recent decision involving the Virginia Military Institute. The central aspect and potential safeguard against inequity lies in requiring that single-sex options be unique only in admissions policy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Coeducation, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedFischer, Louis – Equity and Excellence, 1991
Legal issues in proposals for sex-segregated public school classrooms are complicated in that case law is limited. It is safe to assume that sex-segregated schooling will be upheld if voluntary, if quality of education for males and females is substantially equal, and if racial discrimination is not in question. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Court Litigation, Discriminatory Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education. – 1992
In one of a series of hearings held in communities around the nation on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education met to hear testimony from higher education administrators and others from the state of North Carolina. The witnesses addressed a full range of issues concerning higher…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
