Resources from Quality Education for Minorities Network

Quality Education for Minorities Network

Resource Title: Brownbag Discussion Series
Description: These documents examine the implications for minorities of proposed educational reform; current and pending relevant legislation; and promising educational strategies and research findings.

Resource Title: QEM's Major Reports
Description: QEM seeks to bring clarity and focus to issues of public policy as they affect children and youth who have been historically underserved by the educational system. These reports provide background information and current thinking on educational issues and their implications for minorities, highlight exemplary models that demonstrate quality education at work; keep focus on critical issues affecting public policy. Currently available:

• Education that Works: An Action Plan for the Education of Minorities (January 1990).
• Together We Can Make It Work: A National Agenda to Provide Quality Education for Minorities in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering (April 1992).
• Opening Unlocked Doors: A National Agenda for Ensuring Quality Education for Children and Youth in Low-income Public Housing and Other Low-income Residential Communities (May 1993).
• Laying A Foundation for Tomorrow: A Report on the QEM Initial Years (January 1994).
• Empower the Educator: Enabling Current and Future Mathematics and Science Teachers of Minority Students to Offer More Challenging Courses to their Students - An Action Plan (February 1996).
• Weaving the Web of MSE Success for Minorities: Top Ten Colleges and Universities Report (June 1997).
• Meeting the Challenge in North Carolina: An Action Plan to Increase Minority Participation in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering (February 1998).
• Weaving the Web of MSE Success for Minorities: Update of Tables in QEM's 1997 Top Ten Colleges and Universities Report (February 2000).
• Leading Producers of Minority Doctoral Degree Recipients in Mathematics, the Physical Sciences, and Engineering: 1990-97 (February 2000).
• Scholarly Guideposts for Junior Faculty (February 2000).