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Education Websites
A Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing.
Learning and Violence
http://www.learningandviolence.net/
In the aftermath or presence of violence, too many people believe they cannot learn. This innovative interactive site is a resource to support
The Library of Congress - Her Story Learning Page
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_herstory.php
The resources on this page are divided into sections for teachers and students but would be of interest for everybody. Resources include accounts of women in history and biographical sketches of famous women.
LINCS - Women & Literacy Discussion List
http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Womenliteracy
The NIFL-WOMENLIT list is designed for providers, advocates, researchers, learners, policy makers, and all other persons who are interested in exploring the linkages between women's lives and their literacies.
LitWomen.Org
http://www.litwomen.org/
WE LEARN values and promotes literacy and literature for all women; especially those with lower-level English reading and writing skills. Education can become a liberatory opportunity for women disadvantaged by traditional schooling. Women and girls need and deserve access to a variety of creative educational opportunities, programs, resources, and materials at all levels of readability.
MUJER - Mothers United for Jobs Education and Results
http://members.aol.com/culebramom/mujer.html
National Council for Research on Women
http://www.ncrw.org/index.htm
The National Council for Research on Women, founded in 1981, is a working alliance of 92 women's research and policy centers, more than 3,000 affiliates and a network of over 200 international centers. NCRW's mission is to enhance the connections among research, policy analysis, advocacy, and innovative programming on behalf of women and girls.
Promoting Women and Literacy
http://education.gsu.edu/csal/site/promote.htm
The mission of the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy at Georgia State University is to engage in basic and applied research and to support an exchange of information among the adult literacy professional community. As the demand for literacy increases, so does the need to develop our understanding of what literacy is, the variety of ways in which it is acquired, and the full range of effective teaching methods to develop literacy.
Recommended Books for Women's History Month
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4926
Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education
http://www.readwriteact.org/
The Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE) is a network of college students, adult learners, administrators, literacy practitioners and community partners working to implement and support participatory education and social change work in campus-based literacy programs. SCALE is part of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Update on The Hunger Project's Work in Malawi - March 2000
http://www.thp.org/malawi/
The information on this site includes what the Hunger Project's Epicenter are, which include women's issues (rural bank, food processing training, literacy centers, etc.) It doesn't link to any others sites - just gives info on this particular project.
Women in History Matrix
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Resc/Trade/MatrixWomeninHistory.doc
Some titles in this matrix are picture books with spare text, some are full biographies, and some are collections of shorter biographies about several women (marked bio; group). All focus on important (though not necessarily always famous) women in history.
Women and Literacy
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Swearer_Center/Literacy_Resources/women.html
This page contains links to sites relevant to women's issues, particularly in relation to women's work as learners and literacy practitioners.
Women and Literacy Special Collection
http://www.womensliteracy.org/
Materials and websites in the Women and Literacy special collection have been selected with the goal that the collection be comprehensive and useful to diverse audiences: adult learners, literacy practitioners, program administrators, researchers, and all individuals with an interest in women and literacy.
Women and Scientific Literacy
http://www.aacu.org/womenscilit/
The primary goal of the Women and Scientific Literacy project is to bridge the gulf between science and women's studies by incorporating the new scholarship in these areas into undergraduate science, engineering, and mathematics courses and also by making science a more central part of women's studies courses.
Women's Suffrage
http://www.surfnetkids.com/suffrage.htm
-This site is for kids, but is useful to adults because it's about the Women's Suffrage Movement in the 1840's. Good site. Lots of info on the subject!
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