Everybody Wins! Lunch-Hour Reading Program Scores High With Kids and Volunteers
Department of Ed study confirms that everybody wins with Everybody Wins! program.

Collaboration Needed to Improve Hispanics' Education
A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups. Included: Descriptions of programs that are working *and* ways in which parents, schools, communities, businesses, and the government can come together to help Hispanic students achieve.

Can You Spell D-I-S-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N?
As a Supreme Court ruling highlights the Boy Scouts' ban on homosexuals, the organization finds itself being excluded too. A growing number of local school districts are denying the Boy Scouts access to school buildings for meetings. The Boy Scouts organization is crying foul, stating it's not fair that schools are discriminating against their "moral" values. Included: Guidelines from the National School Boards Association.

An Education World e-Interview with Sherry Turkle: Is Technology Just for Boys?
Sherry Turkle, one of the co-chairs of the American Association of University Women's 15-member Commission on Technology, Gender, and Teacher Education, shares her thoughts on issues arising from the commission's recent report detailed in yesterday's Education World story, Educating Girls in the Tech Age: A Report on Equity.

Educating Girls in the Tech Age: A Report on Equity
Why are girls --who make up less than 20 percent of computer science Advanced Placement (AP) test takers-- so poorly represented in advanced technology classes? Why do so few women --who account for less than 30 percent of instructional technology professionals-- opt for careers in technology? A recent report answers those questions and more.

States Step Up Efforts to Reduce School Segregation
In response to a state Supreme Court ruling that children in Hartford’s urban schools were receiving an inferior and unequal education, Connecticut stepped up efforts to improve the education of urban schools. This week, Education World takes a look at what Connecticut is doing to combat educational inequality. Included: A brief summary of the Harvard University The Civil Rights Project, which looks at the resegregation in U.S. schools.

Equal Access to Software and information
The EASI Web site is an excellent resource to learn more about using adaptive technology to empower disabled students in mainstream, special classroom, and workplace environments. EASI includes live Webcast interviews, articles, and other resources. (Grades: K-12+)

Making Schools Work for Every Child
Making Schools Work for Every Child -- equitably -- is the goal of this Web site. A resource for educators working to create educational equity, the site provides a collection of math and science materials to help improve the ways in which students with varied needs are educated. (Grades: K-12+)

Mobilization for Equity
Mobilization for Equity is a five-year initiative by the National Coalition of Advocates for Children (NCAS) to promote equity in education for students of all socio-economic backgrounds in the United States. Mobilization for Equity is an active advocate for students who are in the greatest need but still get neglected by the engines of change within the educational community. The site includes a newsletter, national alerts, and information about many of the projects that are part of the Mobilization for Equity initiative. (Grades: K-12+)

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Equity & Excellence in Education
This journal of the University of Massachusetts School of Education. A free trial subscription is available.

Kozol
This website is devoted to the work of Jonathan L+Kozol and includes information on his life and several of his landmark books on equity in education.

Savage Inequalities : Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
A review of Jonathan Kozol's critically acclaimed book on the inequity of the American educational system.

Equity Education On Line This site provides information about organizations, research, materials, and more.