The shift from male-defined to gender-balanced education over the past 15 years is described by examining how the social movement for sex equity and the new scholarship on women have interacted. Implications for future action and inquiry are suggested. (MT)

This article examines sex equity and related issues in parenting and parent education. Strategies for encouraging sex equity are proposed. (MT)

This article focuses on social skills in which there is a disparity between male and female performance, including leadership, self-confidence, emotional sensitivity, empathy, and prosocial behaviors. Guidelines for educators to use in helping students overcome sex bias are offered. (MT)

After discussing the effects of sex bias on disabled children, this article examines four areas of special education in which sex bias and stereotyping have been identified. Some approaches which are being used to improve sex equity are described. (MT)

This article examines sex equity in three instructional paradigms chosen due to the common characteristic of language. All three possess and transmit cultural content. Input, process, and outcome issues of sex equity are discussed. (MT)

Policies and practices which result in differential computer learning opportunities are discussed. Resources designed to remedy gender imbalance in computer learning are given. A list of areas where research is needed is offered. (MT)

The field of home economics has generally been neglected within the literature focused on women, feminism, and education. Data concerning gender equity often measure women's achievements by their inroads into fields formerly dominated by men. (MT)

As the curriculum is transformed to ensure that students are computer literate, we must remember that humanities are a large portion of both the substance and the essential values of learning. New knowledge about women of all racial and ethnic groups must be integrated into the liberal arts curriculum. (MT)

While progress has been made, sex equity in education remains an elusive goal. This article identifies strategies that can be used to achieve and maintain sex equity. Research on creating change in education is reviewed, and what, in practice, has succeeded is discussed. (MT)

New conceptions of reading and writing emphasize the active role of the reader or writer in constructing meaning and the inherently social nature of reading and writing. This suggests that classrooms can be viewed as literate communities using reading and writing to accomplish classroom community goals. (MT)

The scope and complexity of literacy problems in secondary schools has received much attention. This article presents a way communication research can be used to identify and examine instructional strategies to extend students' literacy development and overall communicative competence. (MT)

The author proposes a framework that describes the teaching-learning process as shared responsibility between teacher and students from the outset. Research leading to the development of this model is reviewed. (MT)

The reader's role in constructing stories is explored, and the role of participants in shaping a group text is examined. Parts of discussions by two groups of eighth-graders are reproduced and interpreted. (MT)

The author discussed the writing-across-the-curriculum movement and how it has been interpreted. A model of writing across the curriculum is described, and the benefits of such a program to students are stated. (MT)

Teaching limited English proficient students a watered down curriculum because of their low-level English is an instructional bias that can hinder literacy development. When lessons are organized to minimize the constraints of language difficulties, students can produce essays incorporating information they have extracted. (MT)