Tilting the Playing Fields, Silver Module Questions
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Ted Witulski (USA Wrestling)
06/10/2004
Date _____________ Highest Level Achieved (date): Bronze _______ Silver _______ Name ___________________________________ E-mail ______________________________ Address ______________________________________ City ________________State ____ Zip Code _____________Home Phone _________________Work Phone __________________ Date of Attendance at a Coaches College ___________ Date of Bronze Course Instruction_______________ Questions on Tilting the Playing Field, by Jessica Gavora Assessment created by Steve Makein of Connecticut Participants must satisfactorily complete forty of the fifty questions to receive credit. Following completion of the worksheet, mail the completed answers including the $10 processing fee to USA Wrestling, c/o NCEP Manger, 6155 Lehman Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80918. *Note that the module cannot be credited without the $10 processing fee. Confirmation of task credit will be mailed to you following assessment processing. 1) What is "Title IX"? 2) What is the "Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act"? 3) What did the Yale Women's Crew Team do in 1976 to protest the unfair treatment of women athletes by the administration? 4) What trend did the 1976 Yale protest start among NCAA colleges? 5) Why was Brown v. Cohen important in Title IX? 6) How has Title IX impacted the issue of pregnancy in schools outside the realm of extracurricular sports? 7) What is "Roster Management"? 8) What was the significance of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools (1992)? 9) What were the results of the study performed by the "Chronicle of Higher Education"? 10) According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, what is the definition of a "sport"? 11) Is competitive cheerleading considered a sport? Why or why not? 12) Describe Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education and its significance to Title IX. 13) What is "Fair Test"? 14) True/False: NCAA member colleges and universities sponsor more athletic programs for men than women. 15) Who is Norma Cantu and what did she do? 16) Who were "Clinton's Quota Queens"? 17) Before Title IX was passed, what was the ratio of girls playing high school sports, and what is the ratio today? 18) What was the premise for the film, "A Hero for Daisy"? 19) What is the "Tower Amendment"? 20) What is "proportionality"? 21) What was number nine on the "10 Most Common Feminist Myths" as published in the Daily Bruin in 2001? 22) Who wrote "The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality"? 23) What does CAH stand for, and what is its definition? 24) What type of after school extracurricular club/activity is the rare male-dominated exception? 25) Describe the case of Jonathan Prevette and its significance. 26) What is Proposition 209? 27) What is the American Association of University Women and what is their main platform? 28) What is at the top of the women's groups' list of gender inequities in American schools? 29) Describe the findings of study performed by the Philadelphia Inquirer with regards to collegiate athletic programs. 30) True/False: Female student-athletes receive more scholarship aid than the average male student-athlete does. 31) What year was Title IX passed? 32) Who wrote the "Feminine Mystique"? 33) What does the phrase "unintended consequences" refer to? 34) Why did the National Women's Law Center file a complaint against the New York City school system in 2001? 35) What is a "microinequity"? 36) Who said, "Intent, as history shows, is a poor bulwark against depotism"? 37) Who were dubbed "the girls of summer" and the "daughters of Title IX"? 38) In 1998 what happened to Providence College baseball and why? 39) What happened at Merritt Island High School as a result of Title IX? 40) Who was the first person to realize that Executive Order 11246 could be used to help open the doors of colleges and universities to women? 41) What is Executive Order 11246? 42) What did the Green Committee call the American Council on Education during the Green Hearings? 43) Name two ways the "ends-justifies-the-means" argument was flawed with regards to men's sports teams cuts in the 1990s. 44) When and where was the "Three Part Test" to measure compliance in athletic participation under Title IX first introduced? 45) What is the first part, or prong one, of the "Three Part Test" as used by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights? 46) What is prong two of the "Three Part Test" as used by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights? 47) What is the third part of the "Three Part Test" as used by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights? 48) What is the feminists' favorite statistic for justifying more prosecution of Title IX sexual harassment and where does it originate? 49) What is "Domain Expansion"? 50) In 1993, what did Leo Kocher, head-wrestling coach at the University of Chicago say would happen with regards to Title IX? 51) What is the "Disparate Impact Theory"?