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Myra Pollack Sadker, Late of The American University
David Miller Sadker, The American University

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Myra Sadker was professor of Education and Dean of the School of Education at American University (Washington, DC) until 1995. Dr. Sadker wrote the first book on gender bias in America's schools in 1973 and became a leading advocate for equal educational opportunities. She died while undergoing treatment for breast cancer in 1995. In her name, Myra Sadker Advocates was established to continue her efforts and create a more equitable and effective schools.

David Sadker is a professor at The American University (Washington, DC) and, with his late wife, Myra Sadker, gained a national reputation for their work in confronting gender bias and sexual harassment. He has directed more than a dozen federal education grants, authored five books and more than seventy-five articles in journals such as Phi Delta Kappan, Harvard Educational Review, and Psychology Today. His research and writing document sex bias from the classroom to the boardroom. The Sadkers' work has been reported in hundreds of newspapers and magazines including USA Today, USA Weekend, Parade Magazine, Business Week, The Washington Post, The London Times, The New York Times, Time, and Newsweek. They appeared on local and national television and radio shows such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Phil Donahue's The Human Animal, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and twice on Dateline: NBC with Jane Pauley. The Sadkers received the American Educational Research Association's award for the best review of research published in the United States in 1991, their professional service award in 1995, the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from The American Association of University Women in 1995, and the Gender Architect Award from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education in 2001. The Sadkers' book, Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, was published by Touchstone Press in 1995.

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