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Goggans, E. Patricia – 1980
This document is one of three publications designed to establish guidelines for the elimination of sex bias and sex stereotyping and the establishment of sex fairness in vocational education programs in Colorado. A Counselor/Teacher Handbook, it provides information about the problem for teachers, and both theoretical and practical aids for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Background, Bibliographies
Thomas, Susan; And Others – 1980
This publication contains descriptions of thirty-six successful projects developed in twenty states to identify, overcome, and eliminate sex bias and other discriminatory practices in vocational education. Projects include ongoing programs, policies, and procedures and strategies, such as learning modules, models, surveys, and sourcebooks. The…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Change Strategies
Iadicola, Peter; Moore, Helen – 1977
The paper describes a study to measure the relationship of teacher expectations to student characteristics and academic achievement. Specifically, the study assessed the validity of principles regarding teacher expectations set down by sociologists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. Bowles and Gintis maintained that teacher expectations are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Data Analysis, Educational Practices
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. Project on the Status and Education of Women. – 1980
This issue of the "On Campus With Women" newsletter includes the following topics: a federal court case decision that student aid constitutes federal assistance, but that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare cannot compel Grove City College to sign a legally defective Title IX compliance form; a Department of Justice move to…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Athletic Coaches, Blacks, Civil Rights
Livonia Public Schools, MI. – 1979
This first of four workshop modules in the Project ASPIRE (Awareness of Sexual Prejudice Is the Responsibility of Educators) series deals with understanding the development of sexual bias and individual attitudes toward sex-role stereotyping. (See Note about other modules.) The module helps work participants explore (1) the development of an…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Classroom Environment, Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Training
Stiegler, C. B. – 1980
This monograph is designed to motivate and assist Kentucky guidance counselors in fulfilling their role in achieving sex fair vocational education. Section 1 describes the status of vocational education in Kentucky and the United States. These areas are covered: changing roles of men and women, composition of the labor force, undersupply of…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counseling Techniques
Fyans, Leslie J., Jr.; Maehr, Martin L. – 1977
This study deals with attributional theory, a factor of special concern in achievement theory, which focuses on specific behavior as caused by the subject's attributions to the perceived causes of such behavior. This study investigated whether an individual's attributional biases were predictive of task selections he or she made. Furthermore, it…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement, Attribution Theory, Behavior
Austin, Suzanne S. – 1998
Miami-Dade community colleges and middle schools participated in a three-year project designed to improve female students' mathematics skills and prepare them for technical jobs. Faculty encouraged the application of transactional writing in college and middle school algebra, to determine whether combining communication skills with mathematical…
Descriptors: Algebra, College Mathematics, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges
Fisher, Maurice D., Ed. – Gifted Education Press Quarterly, 1995
This document consists of the four issues of the newsletter "Gifted Education Press Quarterly" published during 1995. This newsletter addresses issues in the education of gifted children and youth. The major articles are: (1) "Using Today's Technology: Parents Can Help Challenge Gifted Children" (Adrienne O'Neill); (2)…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Black Students, Creative Thinking
North Carolina Community Coll. System, Raleigh. – 1992
In 1992, the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges adopted a new policy to demonstrate its commitment to include women and minorities in administrative roles. A task force was formed to make recommendations, outlined in this document, for implementing the new policy within the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS). Included in…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrators, Advisory Committees, Community Colleges
Hayes, Eileen – 2000
Based on the assumption that most fathers want to act responsibly, but often do not know how or face obstacles--many of which are created by their own behavior--this Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum uses a discussion approach and experiential learning to help men think differently about their role as fathers and about altering their behavior.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anger, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum
Waldschmidt, Eileen Dugan; Kim, Younghee M.; Kim, Jiyoung; Martinez, Claudia; Hale, Aaron – 1999
The paper chronicles the struggles and challenges of teaching in a 6-week summer bilingual education program in a small town in Oregon. The program was a cooperative effort between a small town school district and Oregon State University at Corvallis. Teachers and researchers who entered into this project looked into the use of bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Classroom Techniques, College School Cooperation, Educational Strategies
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Scott, Kathryn – Social Education, 1995
Maintains that, on the 75th anniversary of women's suffrage, significant advances in the legal status, achievements, and opportunities for women have been made. Contends, however, that sexual harassment is still widespread in the nation's schools. Includes six charts defining and describing forms of sexual harassment. (CFR)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Constitutional History, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This May 28, 2004 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Thailand to Open a University in Muslim Region, to Defuse Tension"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Access to Education, Immigrants
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Cortes, Carlos E. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
The mass media teach whether or not mediamakers intend to or realize it, and users learn from the media whether or not they try or are even aware of it. This means all of the media, including newspapers, magazines, movies, television, radio, and the new cyberspace media serve as informal yet omnipresent nonschool textbooks. This raises an…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Values, Role Models, Expectation
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