Title IX and Home Economics Instruction.

Thurston, Paul W.

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ERIC Number: EJ160012

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Publication Date: 1977

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Title IX and Home Economics Instruction

Thurston, Paul W.

Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 20, 4, 159-161, Mar-Apr 77

The following are discussed with reference to title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibit sex discrimination in federally-supported educational programs: What is title IX? The letter of the law--can the school limit home economics to girls? Is a school in noncompliance if over 75 percent of the students in a home economics class are girls? The spirit of the law: textbooks and a nonsexist home economics. (HD)

Descriptors: Coeducation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Home Economics Education, Legal Responsibility, Public Education, Secondary Education, Sex Discrimination, Sex Role, Textbook Bias

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