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Parrott, Laurel; Spatig, Linda; Kusimo, Patricia S.; Carter, Carolyn C.; Keyes, Marian – Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 2000
Explores the math and science experiences and perceptions of a group of ethnically diverse, low socioeconomic status, rural and urban adolescent Appalachian girls. (Author/CCM)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Perception
Kusimo, Patricia S. – 1999
This digest summarizes impacts of the Brown decision on school segregation and the educational condition of rural African American students today. In the 1990s, over 90 percent of rural African Americans live in the South and continue to suffer from high poverty rates and low educational attainment. In 1954, the Supreme Court decision in Brown et…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Students, Educational History, Educationally Disadvantaged
Carter, Carolyn S.; Cohen, Sara; Keyes, Marian; Kusimo, Patricia S.; Lunsford, Crystal – 2000
This guide contains hands-on mathematics activities to connect middle-school students to the traditional knowledge of their grandparents and elders. Because girls often lose interest in math at the middle-school level, and because women in some communities (especially in rural areas) are seldom involved in work with an obvious math basis, the…
Descriptors: Design Crafts, Geometry, Handicrafts, Mathematical Enrichment
Carter, Carolyn S.; Keyes, Marian; Kusimo, Patricia S.; Lunsford, Crystal – 2000
This guide contains hands-on science activities to connect middle-school students to the traditional knowledge of their grandparents and elders. Because girls often lose interest in science at the middle-school level, and because women in some communities (especially in rural areas) are seldom involved in work with an obvious science basis, the…
Descriptors: Food, Foods Instruction, Hands on Science, Microbiology