Equity part of the Education Reform Network

Directory of Educational Equity Organizations

Link: http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/pdffiles/directory.pdf

WEEA, listed above as a gender equity resource, in housed in the Educational Development Center and has the most comprehensive listing of all Federal, Regional, and State equity-related agencies that we could find, so we will not duplicate the information here. The Directory of Educational Equity Organizations listing includes full contact information for 1) State Equity contacts, 2) the federal and regional offices of the Office of Civil Rights, 3) the ten Equity Assistance Centers (formerly known as Desegregation Assistance Centers), 4) the Comprehensive Centers, funded to provide assistance for Limited English Proficient students, high-poverty or Title I students, immigrant/migrant students, Special Education, and education for homeless youth and Native-Americans, 5) the R-TECs funded to provide training for technology integration, including equity issues in technology, 6) the Eisenhower Regional Clearinghouse and regional alliances and consortiums for math, science, and technology education, 7) OBEMLA (see listing under National Origin here in the Equity Portal), and, 8) the ten Regional Education Laboratories.The Federal government funds the ten equity assistance centers listed in the EDC site above to help schools stay in compliance with Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. These centers provide assistance in the areas of race, gender, and national origin equity to public school districts to promote equal educational opportunities. The centers used to be called DACs (Desegregation Assistance Centers), but the name was changed to Equity Assistance Centers as desegregation strategies such as busing became increasingly controversial in the 1990s. In addition, for several decades each state Department of Education had local staff that provided equity-related technical assistance and training under the same law to local schools. The state portion of the Civil Rights funding was eliminated in 1995, leaving the burden to respond to individual parent, student, school or district requests for assistance to the ten regional centers. Below are listed the centers and the geographic area they serve. Particularly notable resources from their websites are listed for each. Many of the web resources are available to all, beyond their own geographical service area.

• Cataloged: 2003-01-17
• Contributor: mailto:[email protected]
• Author/Creator: WEEA
• Publisher: WEEA
• Rights: WEEA
• Source: WEEA
• Resource Availability: 500 Can't connect to www.edc.org:80 (connect: timeout)

This resource is cataloged under:

• Beneficiary: Global: National Organizations
• Beneficiary: Individual: Administrators
• Beneficiary: Individual: College / University Instructors
• Beneficiary: Individual: Curriculum Supervisors
• Beneficiary: Individual: General Public
• Beneficiary: Individual: Librarians
• Beneficiary: Individual: Parents
• Beneficiary: Individual: Policy-Makers
• Beneficiary: Individual: Students
• Beneficiary: Individual: Student Teachers
• Beneficiary: Individual: Supervisors
• Beneficiary: Individual: Teacher Educators
• Beneficiary: Individual: Teachers
• Beneficiary: Individual: Technology Coordinators
• Beneficiary: Learning organization / school system: Business and Industry
• Beneficiary: Learning organization / school system: Higher Education
• Beneficiary: Learning organization / school system: Teacher Preparation Programs
• Beneficiary: Region: Community and Other Resources
• Beneficiary: Region: Professional Associations
• Beneficiary: Region: State Departments of Education
• Beneficiary: Work group: Family
• Educational Type: Collection
• Language: English
• Learning Type: Narrative Text
• Network/channel: Equity
• Network/channel: Equity: General Equity Providers and Resources
• Resource Type: Collection
• Resource Type: Text

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