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Pelak, Cynthia Fabrizio – Sociology of Education, 2008
This research examines the phenomenon of sexist naming of women's athletic teams at four-year colleges and universities in the southern United States. Drawing on theoretical and methodological insights from feminist scholarship on gender and sports, gendered language, and intersecting systems of race and gender inequalities, the author analyzes…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Physical Activities, Females, Athletes
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1983
Hearings on the enforcement of civil rights legislation in higher education and the impact of policies and litigation on compliance are presented. Efforts to desegregate and enhance historically-black state colleges are addressed. Louisiana's civil rights consent decree is outlined, with attention to: governance, student access, student financial…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Civil Rights Legislation, College Desegregation
US Department of Education, 2005
This report presents a summary of Virginia's response to the U.S. Department of Education's (USED) decision on proposed amendments to the Consolidated State Application Accountability Workbook required in the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001." A June 8, 2004 letter by Thomas M. Jackson (President, Virginia Board of Education) to Raymond…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, School Districts