Would a
media campaign showing students involved in non-traditional courses for their
gender improve the ratio of gender enrolling in those courses and change gender
role perceptions of tenth graders?
Historically
there have been career and technology courses with a predominance of one gender
over the other. Classes in nursing,
childcare and family living are predominantly female, while classes in auto
mechanics, welding and programming are predominantly male. A concern exists
that the reason for the overrepresentation or underrepresentation of a
particular group may be result of program policies or practices.
The
Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has developed guidelines that explain the civil
rights responsibilities of any entity receiving federal funds for administering
career and technology education programs.
The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act
requires all schools to ensure that the percentage of students of a particular
ethnic group, disability or gender enrolled in CTE courses reflects the same
percentage of students enrolled in the school.
Schools who have courses with ratios that dip below that standard are
required to implement improvement plans and could face sanctions or loss of
funding.
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