The authorized school districts to use local or innovative program funds to offer single-sex schools and classrooms consistent with applicable laws. In anticipation of an increase in the number of public single-sex schools, the U. Department of Education contracted with RMC Research Corporation to conduct a descriptive study of existing single-sex public schools that would address the following evaluation questions: To address these questions the study includes a systematic review of the literature available in 2004, a survey of public single-sex schools, and a preliminary exploratory observational study of a subsample of currently operating public single-sex schools.
The observational study was designed to yield three types of descriptive information about single sex schools: the schools' demographic characteristics, the professional characteristics of the teachers and principals, and the teachers' and principals' perceptions of the school characteristics.
"An excellent example of a small (but hopefully growing) tendency to reach out beyond the field of African American studies and engage in dialogue with American cultural and literary criticism and history."--Hazel Carby, , Ann du Cille's splendid contribution to Black feminist and literary analysis, is a critical achievement of the nineties....
Du Cille's work is marked by her willingness to ask hard and sometimes unpopular questions.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for all citizens regardless of gender; it seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.
The ERA was originally written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman.
The amendment was introduced in Congress for the first time in 1923 and has prompted conversations about the meaning of equality for women and men.
In recent years, however, interest in public single-sex education has increased substantially. Department of Education published amendments to the Title IX regulations in October 2006 that would provide school districts additional flexibility to implement single-sex programs.All State-level cell phone use laws in the United States are of the primary enforcement type—meaning an officer may cite a driver for using a hand-held cell phone without any other traffic offense having taken place—except in some cases involving newer (or "novice"), drivers.In the case of secondary enforcement, a police officer may only stop or cite a driver for a cell phone use violation if the driver has committed another primary violation (such as speeding, failure to stop, etc.) at the same time. ban all cell phone use by newer drivers; while 19 states and Washington, D. prohibit any cell phone use by school bus drivers if children are present.With the rise of the women's movement in the United States in the 1960s, the ERA garnered increasing support, and, after being reintroduced by Representative Martha Griffiths (D-MI), in 1971, it passed both houses of Congress in 1972 and was submitted to the state legislatures for ratification.Congress had originally set a ratification deadline of March 22, 1979.