ADDITIONAL EQUITY-RELATED RESOURCES

List of URL's Concerning Equity Issues
As of 10/26/2000

THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

Digital Divide Network

Mission - The goal of bridging the divide is to use communications technology to help improve the quality of life of all communities and their citizens: to provide them with the tools, skills and information they need to help them realize their socioeconomic, educational and cultural potential.

http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/

Yahoo's digital divide link page

http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/Tech/Digital_Divide

Northwest Regional Lab - Equity Program

http://www.nwrel.org/cnorse/index.html

NWREL's Northwest Educational Technology Consortium

Without consistent attention, equity is an illusive goal. Explore a specific process that taps the commitment of individuals in your school or district who can become advocates for equity in educational technology.

http://www.netc.org/equity/index.html

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Equity Resource

http://equity.enc.org/topics/equity/

A resource for educators concerned about creating equitable conditions in which every child can succeed. These equity materials can help teachers and administrators acknowledge children's diverse strengths, identify inequities, and improve the ways they serve students with varied needs.

Making Schools Work for Every Child -- Free CD-ROM

Send a request for a copy to cd_request@enc.org,

phone 800-621-5785 614-292-7784, or fax 614-292-2066.

This free CD-ROM serves as a resource for those concerned about educational equity related to K-12 mathematics and science education. It includes stories and cases of innovative programs, interviews with educators, vignettes illustrating particular equity issues, and cases examining equity issues in schools and classrooms, as well as resource guides, assessment tools, and links to other web resources.

Key Issues Equity and Access - Math Forum

http://www.mathforum.org/social/math.equity.html

COMMERCE SECRETARY MINETA RELEASES REPORT FINDING PROGRESS ON DIGITAL INCLUSION

WASHINGTON-More Americans than ever have Internet access and own computers, according to a government report released today by Commerce Secretary Norman Y. Mineta. The report found that progress is being made toward the Administration's goal of making certain every American has access to the information-age tools necessary to take part in the digital economy.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2000/fttn101600.htm

Computers are increasingly conditioning the kind of country we live in.

DIGITAL DIVIDE shines a light on the role computers play in widening social gaps throughout our society, particularly among young people. By providing equitable and meaningful access to technology we can ensure that all children step into the 21st Century together.

http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/about.html

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Digital Divide Research. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation conducts ongoing research into the causes and effects of the Digital Divide, as well as possible solutions. This information is used in grantmaking, policy formation and grant implementation.

http://www.glf.org/learning/digitaldivide.htm

Study Finds Disparity in Internet Use

By Mary Ann Zehr. Schools are closing the gap between minority and white students in their use of computers in the classroom, but discrepancies persist in the ways they use them, a new study suggests.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=37divide.h19

Beyond Access: Understanding the Digital Divide

By Andy Carvin. Keynote Address. NYU Third Act Conference. May 19, 2000

http://www.benton.org/Divide/thirdact/speech.html

InternetNews - Business News: The Internet as Job Creator

New report predicts the online medium will have added 10 million digital and traditional jobs to the economy in the United States and Europe by 2002. The booming Internet economy is a giant job factory, and by 2002, it will employ more than 10 million people across a variety of industries in the United States, the five largest European economies and Ireland, says a new report.

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_447441,00.html

THE DIGITAL DIVIDE'S NEW FRONTIER

Computers and the Internet are revolutionizing the ways people learn, communicate, and earn a living. Yet study after study has shown that America faces a significant and troubling "digital divide" between those who have access to online information and opportunities and those who do not. While this digital divide has received a lot of attention from the press, policymakers, and the Internet industry, an important aspect has been neglected: content. This new dimension of the digital divide is beginning to take shape, however-- and is having a profound impact on young people and those who guide and teach them.

http://www.childrenspartnership.org/pub/low_income/
executivesummary.html

Gartner's Digital Divide Report: 50 percent of U.S. Households Now Have Internet Access.

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 2, 2000 - Michael D. Fleisher, CEO of Gartner Group, Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB) today announced the findings of Gartner's Digital Divide and American Society Report at the House Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology. This report examines the gap between the technologically destitute and wired citizens across the United States.

http://www.gartner.com/public/static/aboutgg/
pressrel/pr20001002a.html

EdNet Week Headlines - Feature Story for October 13, 2000: A Persisting Digital Divide Puts Millions of Americans at an Economic, Social and Political Disadvantage

(Washington, D.C. - October 11, 2000) - While computer ownership and Internet use continue to grow, the "digital divide" that separates those Americans connected to the Internet from those who are not persists and is not likely to disappear any time soon, according to a report released today by the Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union. The gap puts millions of Americans at a disadvantage in our increasingly "online" society. The more important the Internet becomes, the more serious the problem will be, unless steps are taken to close the gap.

http://hellerreports.com/dte/lead.html

Bridging The Digital Divide: First You Need The Bridge. By Jonathan Peizer

We are witnessing a technological revolution. But we are also witnessing a growing "digital divide," a technological apartheid. Over the last year the catchphrase "bridging the digital divide" has entered the vernacular. However, the divide itself has many different definitions, and each week, somewhere in the world, representatives of different sectors meet to discuss ways of partnering to resolve it.

http://www.mediachannel.org/views/oped/peizer.shtml

The Big Picture Demographics: African-Americans Using Wealth Of Web Information

African-Americans with access to the Internet are working it seriously and feeling good about it, according to the latest report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

The group conducted a survey of the online behaviors of blacks and found they are more likely to take advantage of its many uses including job information, quality of life questions and email.

http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/demographics
/article/0,,5901_493751,00.html

Report: Digital Divide Widens

The Commerce Department says minorities are gaining access at a quick pace but lag behind the national average. By Ronna Abramson

http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,19429,00.html?nl=met

GENDER EQUITY

Women's Equity Resource Center

http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/

NSF Program for Women & Girls (with CCT)

http://www.edc.org/CCT/pwg/FILES/home/index.htm

Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age (2000)

http://www.aauw.org/2000/techsavvy.html

Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children October 1998

The AAUW has published a report to follow up on the pivotal How Schools Shortchange Girls, 1992. The full report or an executive summary are available for purchase. Call 800-225-9998 ext. 478, or write AAUW, Dept. 478, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701-0251. See http://www.aauw.org

AAUW Tech Check for Schools and Equity Library

AAUW is providing tools and guidance on capitalizing on the release of Gender Gaps. For example, see this new tool to help schools examine technology opportunities for girls and boys. There is a self-assessment guide. The program will honor schools that achieve gender equity in technology as well as several other key areas identified in Gender Gaps. Schools that do well can be entered into a database of model programs to be made available to the Educational Foundation's new Commission on Gender and Technology.

See: http://www.aauw.org/2000/techchk.html

See: http://www.aauw.org/6000/library.html

NSF Division of Human Resource Development

http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/HRD/

Program for Gender Equity

http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/HRD/pge.asp

Additional Links: NSF Gender and Equity; Listing of Equity Resources

http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/hrd/ge/oth-equity.htm

U.S. Dept or Ed

Teacher Education and Gender Equity: ERIC Digest

http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed408277.html

Equity measures from NCES -- draft only

http://nces.ed.gov/forum/EquityMeasures.asp

Trends in Educational Equity of Girls of Women (NCES, 2000-30)

http://www.nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2000030

Center for Women & Information Technology

http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/

The Center has a three-fold mission: to encourage more women and girls to study computer science and/or information systems and to pursue careers in IT; to enable more women and girls to use IT comfortably and knowledgeably and to understand its rapidly increasing importance in every field, not just in science and technology but also in the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences; to foster research concerning the relationship between gender and IT

Washington Research Institute: Equity

http://www.wri-edu.org/equity/index.htm

Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc.

http://www.campbell-kibler.com/

The Teacher Education Equity Project (TEEP)

http://www.campbell-kibler.com/One_Proj.htm

Gender Equity Sites

http://www.wfu.edu/~mccoy/gendereq.htm

"Measuring Progress Toward Equity in Science and Mathematics Education"

An article by Jane Butler Kahle in the NISE Brief (National Institute for Science Education), Vol. 2, No. 3, August 1998. Get a free copy (with no copyright) at http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/nise

"Making a Splash" -- Marketing Guide for Gender Equity Projects

A brochure developed by Patricia Campbell, Christina Boyer, and Kathryn Acerbo-Backmann, with funding from NSF. Get a copy at http://www.campbell-kibler.com This site points to other very good resources!

GirlTECH

Lesson plans, workshops, and ten tips on getting girls interested in computers.

See http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/Women/GirlTECH/

Also: http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/education/#Minorities

News Articles

Washington Post: Equal Opportunity Learning

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-02/22/062l-022200-idx.html

Scholar Develops Computer Adventure Game for Girls

http://chronicle.com/free/2000/02/2000021801t.htm

Op Ed Article on Equity and Telecomputing

http://www.cni.org/Hforums/roundtable/1994-03/0175.html

MULTICULTURAL EQUITY

Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE)

The CREDE mission is to assist the nation's diverse students at risk of educational failure to achieve academic excellence. Central to its mission, CREDE's research and development focuses on critical issues in the education of linguistic and cultural minority students and those placed at risk by factors of race, poverty, and geographic location.

http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/

Teaching Alive: An Interactive CD-ROM for Teacher Development

http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/Portfolio/TeachingAlive/teachingalive.html http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/Resources/AnnBib/AnnBibs.html

Multicultural Supersite

A new multicultural education site for teachers and teacher educators!

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi/

Multicultural Pavillion

Resources and Dialogues for Educators, Students and Activists.

Visit a new multicultural education site for teachers and teacher educators! University of Virginia, Curry School of Education

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/

HISPANIC AMERICAN EDUCATION

Our Nation on the Fault Line: Hispanic American Education (September 1996) demonstrates that Hispanic American students are at risk. The educational achievement gap between Hispanics and non-Hispanics persists. The essential purpose of this report is to compel local, state, and Federal policy makers to take serious and immediate action to improve the educational attainment of Hispanic Americans. To help reach that goal, this report provides an overview of the demographic and cultural composition of Hispanic Americans, and the current state of education for Hispanic Americans.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FaultLine/

BILINGUAL

National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education

http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/index.htm

Model Strategies in Bilingual Education: Professional Development (1995)

Research-based principles of professional development are illustrated in this report, which profiles 12 promising projects for professional development in bilingual education.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ModStrat/index.html

LANGUAGE MINORITY EDUCATION

The Center for Language Minority Education and Research based at California State University, Long Beach.

At the Center a vision is held of a powerful, humane, multicultural and multilingual society. In achieving that vision, the Center seeks to create a comprehensive vision and approach to integrated educational, health, social and school-to-work services. Center goals therefore encompass and often exceed Goals 2000 and the National Education Goals. The Center, through research, seeks a better understanding of what works and why.

http://www.clmer.csulb.edu/

AT-RISK

ED Reports and Studies from OERI

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/studies.html#At-Risk

Parents' Literacy and Their Children's Success in School:

Recent Research, Promising Practices, and Research Implications, OERI Research Report

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ResearchRpts/parlit.html

Education Reform and Students At Risk: A Review of the Current State of the Art

The need to "raise the performance of at-risk youth" has become a popular rallying cry for school reform, yet there is often confusion or disagreement about which children are at risk, why they are at risk, and what can be done to improve their chances for success in school and adult life. The purpose of this monograph is to bring together what has been learned over the past few decades about children at risk, to analyze current strategies designed to improve student and school performance, and to propose ways of achieving academic excellence with high reliability.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdReformStudies/EdReforms/

Tools for Schools: School Reform Models Supported by the National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students(April 1998)

Information for improving the performance of schools with significant at-risk student populations. It contains information about 27 school reform models that have received support for development, expansion, adaptation, or reviewuation through the Institute's research program. Each model description gives a fairly in-depth view of what is required for a school to implement the model and identifies contact persons and other sources that may be accessed for additional information.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ToolsforSchools/

Toward Resiliency: At-Risk Students Who Make It to College (May 1998)

Examines whether student, parent, and peer engagement factors that contributed to at-risk students' success in graduating from high school continued to be important in making the transition from high school to postsecondary education. This analysis uses logistic regression models to determine the likelihood of enrolling in postsecondary education, after controlling for risk factors, math coursetaking, and achievement measures, as well as activities presumed to be important for preparing for college. For the most part, parent and peer engagement variables are important but student engagement variables are less conclusive.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Resiliency/

Idea Book Series

The Idea Book series is designed to support the implementation of the new Title I legislation.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/studies3.html#IDEA

DISABILITIES

To Assure the Free Appropriate Public Education of all Children with Disabilities, Nineteenth Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (1997)

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/studies.html#Disabilities

Report on the Section 504 Self-review

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in federally assisted programs and activities. The Department's Report on the Section 504 Self-reviewuation (May 1996) examines how accessible the Department's offices, facilities, programs, and activities are to individuals with disabilities.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Sec504/

The Future is in the Margins: The Role of Technology and Disability in Educational Reform

U.S. Dept. of Education White Paper by David Rose and Anne Meyer

http://www.air.org/forum/AbRose_Meyer.htm

W3C Web AccessibilityInitiative (WAI)

Mission: The W3C's commitment to lead the Web to its full potential includes promoting a high degree of usability for people with disabilities. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), in coordination with organizations around the world, is pursuing accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education & outreach, and research & development.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Frequently Asked Questions about Access for Students with Disabilities

REHABILITATION ENGINEERING AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA

http://www.resna.org/tap/aet_sfaq.htm

The Computer Accessibility Technology Packet

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/techpack.pdf

Sent by Secretary of Education Richard Riley to state and local education agencies to inform them

of their obligations to consider the technology needs of disabled students when purchasing hardware,

software, and other technological devices.

Links to Information on the Digital Divide and Related Issues