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Mertz, Gayle – 1980
Designed for fifth and sixth grade students in Boulder County (Colorado) schools, this manual provides objectives and activities and lists resources for legal education. The fifth grade unit focuses on awareness of rights and responsibilities through a study of the Bill of Rights, Title IX, citizenship responsibilities, and the juvenile justice…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Grade 5
Peer reviewedNilges, Lynda M. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 1998
Investigated the lived status of Title IX in a fourth-grade physical education class. Interviews, observations, field notes, and document analysis indicated that patriarchal gender differentiation continued to shape and define the lives of boys and girls in physical education, with boys largely awarded physical space and girls situated as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Equal Education, Females, Feminism
Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 1996
In "Rowinsky" the Fifth Circuit ruled that Title IX does not entitle a student to recover damages from a school district for peer sexual harassment. However, three federal district courts and the Eleventh Circuit have joined the trend of holding school districts liable. Follows the Eleventh Circuit's approach and advises school districts…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, Females
Download full textPriest, Laurie; Summerfield, Liane M. – 1994
This digest provides background information about gender equity in sports and physical activity as well as specific strategies for achieving equity at the middle and secondary school levels. The paper begins by describing gender equitable sports programs as ones in which either boys or girls would be pleased to accept as its own the program of the…
Descriptors: Athletics, Compliance (Legal), Equal Education, Equal Facilities
Peer reviewedLirgg, Cathy D. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1993
Students from coeducational classes were assigned to a same-sex or a new coeducational physical education class for a 10-lesson unit of basketball. Group and individual analyses indicated that middle school students preferred same-sex classes, whereas high school students preferred coeducational classes. (SM)
Descriptors: Basketball, Coeducation, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
Malcolm, Dolores B. – 1985
To heighten student awareness about sex equity issues and to equip students with information for legal remedies are the goals of this curriculum guide. Each lesson in the unit contains objectives, materials, and procedures. The unit is divided into three sections, each with lessons appropriate for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade levels. Students…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Curriculum Guides, Economics, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
