Application of Title IX Guidance to Math and Science Education

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2012-07-26 17:10

Article here. Excerpt:

'Last week, Heritage published a blog post entitled “Obama Administration Broadens Gender Quotas in Higher Ed,” detailing the Administration’s expansion of Title IX enforcement to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.
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What steps is the Administration taking?

  • The federal government will harness an interagency collaboration between the DOE and the Department of Justice to develop common guidance for colleges on Title IX compliance “to help institutions better understand their compliance obligations and ways to improve access and outreach to women and girls in STEM fields.”
  • The DOE will revise its technical assistance to explicitly address STEM education to include information for K-12 schools and universities about their requirements to “ensure equal access to educational programs and resources in STEM fields.”
  • The DOE “will broaden data collection to provide new gender-based academic analyses.”

Will this new collaboration result in quotas, substituting policymakers’ predetermined outcomes for the preferences of students, and diminished opportunities for men in STEM fields? If implementation of Title IX in the intercollegiate athletics context is a reliable indicator, there is strong evidence that it might.'

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