National Groups Promise Steps To Combat Inequities for Girls

By Millicent Lawton

WASHINGTON--Leaders Of nearly three dozen national education and youth-serving groups assembled here last week to begin outlining a plan for adopting recommendations from a report that concludes girls are being shortchanged by schools.

Timed to coincide with the official release of the report, commissioned by the American Association of University Women, the "National Education Summit on Girls" served as a forum for discussion of how educators and policymakers can go about making precollegiate education more equitable for girls.

Immediate commitments from the participating groups included promises of wide dissemination of the report, invitations to the A.A.U.W. to make presentations at other conferences, and plans to undertake training of educators to help eradicate...