Other organizations dealing with equity The Women and Education SIG An affiliate of the American Educational Research Association The Research on Women and Education SIG (RWE) has supported the efforts of women scholars for the past twenty years. The RWE operates as one of some 100 Special Interest Groups in AERA. The RWE SIG actively promotes scholarship on women and girls in education in collaboration with two other women's groups in AERA; the Committee on the Role and Status of Women in Educational Research and Development, and Women Educators. The RWE SIG was established in 1973 and has two major purposes. One is to provide a structure within AERA for the promotion of research concerning women and girls in education. The second is to provide a mechanism to facilitate communication among researchers and practictioners who are concerned about women in education. Click here. International Organization for Women and Mathematics Education An affiliate of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction IOWME is an international network of individuals and groups who share a commitment to achieving equity in education and who are interested in the links between gender and the teaching -- and learning -- of mathematics. Click here. TODOS Mathematics for all The mission of TODOS: Mathematics for ALL is to advocate for an equitable and high quality mathematics education for all students,in particular Latino/Hispanic students, by advancing the professional growth and equity awareness of educators. Click here. The WEEA Equity Resource Center The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Equity Resource Center was established more than 20 years ago to bring support and resources to the many exceptional efforts that are improving the education of girls and women in the United States. The WEEA Center is a national project that promotes bias-free education, believing that gender equity works for everyone--for girls and women, men and boys. Our mission is to increase educational opportunities and outcomes for all students by focusing on gender equity and drawing on the strengths of gender, race, ethnicity, disability, and income. Click here. North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Goals of PME-NA The major goals of the International Group and the North American Chapter are: 1) To promote international contacts and the exchange of scientific information in the psychology of mathematics education; 2) To promote and stimulate interdisciplinary research in the aforesaid area, with the cooperation of psychologists, mathematicians and mathematics teachers; 3) To further a deeper and better understanding of the psychological aspects of teaching and learning mathematics and the implications thereof. Click here. NASGEmNorth American Study Group on Ethnomathematics An affiliate of the International Study Group on Ethnomathematics What is ethnomathematics? The term was coined by Ubiratan D'Ambrosio to describe the mathematical practices of identifiable cultural groups. It is sometimes used specifically for small-scale indigenous societies, but in its broadest sense the "ethno" prefix can refer to any group -- national societies, labor communities, religious traditions, professional classes, and so on. Mathematical practices include symbolic systems, spatial designs, practical construction techniques, calculation methods, measurement in time and space, specific ways of reasoning and inferring, and other cognitive and material activities which can be translated to formal mathematical representation. NASGEm strives to increase our understanding of the cultural diversity of mathematical practices, and to apply this knowledge to education and development. Click here. The Benjamin Banneker Association An affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics The Benjamin Banneker Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization of individuals and groups concerned about the mathematics education of African-American children. Banneker members are deeply committed to finding solutions to the problems that must be solved in order for African-American children to reach parity of opportunities to study and achieve in mathematics. The membership is open to all who have a profound interest in the mathematics education of African-American children Click here.