Education for Women
Title IX:
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,"
This was a huge deal for women in education because it gave women equal opportunities to men in public education and activities. Title IX has improved the lives of girls and women more than we realize, after this was passed, schools must work to prevent and address sexual harassment, women may be professors, it is not legal to deny ones college application based on gender, and many more amazing repercussions. Today the conversation surrounding Title IX is still raging due to the popularity of #MeToo, a hashtag that is raising awareness about sexual assault through women sharing their personal experience, Title IX attempts to assure victims that their assaulters will not go unpunished.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. United States Code, vol. 20.
The United States Department of Justice, www.justice.gov/crt/title-ix-education-amendments-1972. Accessed 1 Nov. 2017.
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,"
This was a huge deal for women in education because it gave women equal opportunities to men in public education and activities. Title IX has improved the lives of girls and women more than we realize, after this was passed, schools must work to prevent and address sexual harassment, women may be professors, it is not legal to deny ones college application based on gender, and many more amazing repercussions. Today the conversation surrounding Title IX is still raging due to the popularity of #MeToo, a hashtag that is raising awareness about sexual assault through women sharing their personal experience, Title IX attempts to assure victims that their assaulters will not go unpunished.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. United States Code, vol. 20.
The United States Department of Justice, www.justice.gov/crt/title-ix-education-amendments-1972. Accessed 1 Nov. 2017.
School Desegregation:
"One of the most striking anti-integration efforts occurred in 1957 when Arkansas governor Orval Faubus (1910–1994) ordered the state’s national guard to block the doors to Little Rock’s Central High School, preventing nine black teenagers from entering. Only after President Dwight Eisenhower (1890–1969) sent federal troops to the site were the nine students allowed to attend the school. Other states were equally creative. Prince Edward County in Virginia decided to close all of its public schools rather than integrate them."
Governments in segregated states stopped at nothing to ensure that schools remained segregated. The federal government even had to intervene to ensure that the students weren't blocked from entering the school. Despite the barriers that people of color have faced, they were eventually able to gain equal education. * Read the whole source here (password needed) "Desegregation." Galegroup.com, edited by William A. Darrity, Jr., 2nd ed., Accessed 26 Oct. 2017. |
This photo was at a protest of school desegregation in Little Rock Arkansas in 1959. School integration was a large part of equal education for African Americans in the 1900s. The conversation surrounding school integration was one of racism and hatred amongst many white Americans towards their African American neighbors, but some Americans were supportive of education for all by helping and protecting African Americans.
Bledsoe, John T. Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol, protesting the integration of Central High School. Protesters carry US flags and signs reading "Race Mixing is Communism" and "Stop the Race Mixing March of the Anti-Christ". 1959. Wikipedia, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Little_Rock_integration_protest.jpg Accessed 5 Oct. 2017. |
"Educational opportunities for African Americans increased after the Civil War. Some schools and colleges intended for African Americans were opened, including Spelman College and Fisk University. Those colleges were predicated on the principle of classical liberal arts education; however, in the 1880s, industrial education also made its debut. Founded by Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama centered hard work through vocational education."
As African Americans received more rights, their educational opportunities increased as well. Some African Americans like Washington were even able to establish universities in the 1880s, long before the Civil Rights Movement.
Watts, Tim. "Education." American History, ABC-CLIO,
americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/263211?terms=Education&sType=quick.
Accessed 28 Sept. 2017.
As African Americans received more rights, their educational opportunities increased as well. Some African Americans like Washington were even able to establish universities in the 1880s, long before the Civil Rights Movement.
Watts, Tim. "Education." American History, ABC-CLIO,
americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/263211?terms=Education&sType=quick.
Accessed 28 Sept. 2017.
Education for Disabled Students
"The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was passed in 1975 after the courts ruled that states must provide a “free appropriate public education” to children with physical, mental or emotional problems. Under the law, renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the federal government is required to help local school boards pay for the special-education services needed by students with disabilities."
The IDEA was one step towards children with disabilities getting an chance to succeed in life. After this law was passed, disabled children had the basic right to education like other children.
Koch, Kathy. "Special Education." CQresearcher, 10 Nov. 2000,
library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/
document.php?id=cqresrre2000111000&type=hitlist&num=2. Accessed 26 Oct.
2017.
The IDEA was one step towards children with disabilities getting an chance to succeed in life. After this law was passed, disabled children had the basic right to education like other children.
Koch, Kathy. "Special Education." CQresearcher, 10 Nov. 2000,
library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/
document.php?id=cqresrre2000111000&type=hitlist&num=2. Accessed 26 Oct.
2017.