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McGuinness, Aims – Education Commission of the States, 2016
A decade ago, the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (the National Center) issued a policy brief, "State Capacity for Higher Education Policy." The National Center's core recommendation: States must have a broad-based, independent, credible public entity with a clear charge to increase the state's educational…
Descriptors: State Policy, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Sandler, Bernice R. – 1989
This booklet helps institutions understand the restoration of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and changes resulting from the Civil Rights Restoration Act. Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in federally assisted education programs. A 1984 ruling held that Title IX covers only programs or activities funded with federal money. In…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, College Athletics
Sosa, Alicia, Ed. – NABE News, 2000
The National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) newsletter is published 8 times a year in order to help NABE fulfill its mission of addressing the educational needs of language-minority Americans. Topics such as educational reform, bilingual education, bilingualism, indigenous bilingual education, second language teaching (theory and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education
California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2006
Since the passage of Title IX in 1972--a landmark federal sex equity law--enforcement efforts have primarily focused on creating equity for females, based on studies showing them lagging in access and opportunity. But in recent years, concern has been rising about gender gaps that affect males--including an increasingly visible gender gap in…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Higher Education, Sex Fairness, Equal Education
Vanderslice, Ronna; Litsch, Kelli – 1998
This paper examines the historical perspective of women in higher education, the problems facing women moving into leadership roles, the impact of Title IX on women, and finally the implications of these factors on women's ability to advance in higher education. The paper begins by examining the effect of affirmative action on women's progress,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Discrimination, Educational History
Perry-Miller, Mitzi – 1976
Three years after Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 became law, the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare provided regulations for the implementation of Title IX. This report reviews the implications of these regulations as well as several of the court cases in which discrimination on the basis of sex has been declared…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Females, Personnel Selection