Dr. Shakeshaft has been studying equity in schools for a quarter of a century, documenting gendered practice in the classroom and in school administration. She is an internationally recognized researcher in the area of gender patterns in educational delivery and classroom interactions. She is widely published and her research in this area has received several national and state awards. She is the author of Women in Educational Administration (5^th printing) and Sexual Abuse in Schools, scheduled for publication in Fall 1999.

      Her work on equity in schools has taken her into school systems across the United States, Canada, and Europe where she has helped educators make schools more welcoming to females. Dr. Shakeshaft gives talks, presents workshops, evaluates programs and curriculum, and conducts gender audits. She serves as an expert witness and consultant in a number of legal proceedings on sexual harassment of students, and works with school districts to develop policies and practices that decrease sexual harassment of all within the educational community.

      Professor Shakeshaft has completed a number of evaluations for schools including gender audits, technology impact studies, curriculum impact studies, cost benefit analyses, and intervention outcomes analyses.

      The research for her most recent book was funded by the U.S. Department of Education and was a multi-year analysis of peer harassment in eight Long Island school districts. In addition, she has studied sexual harassment and abuse of students by adults, work also funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

      With Dr. Dale Mann, Dr. Shakeshaft has recently completed three large-scale studies of the impact of technology on student achievement. She is also directing a projected funded by the National Science Foundation to involve more low income students of color in math, science, and technology activities.