Tag Archives: Education

New study shows women can do math, and well

By Eesha Pandit | Published: February 7, 2012
TweetWhen I say “affirmative action” what comes to mind? While the readers of this post may think of this answer (because you are largely a self-selecting group), I doubt that many folks think of the definition as successful policy proposals that directly impact marginalized communities. The notion of affirmative action is so maligned in our [...]
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Tennessee Tea Party wants to delete slavery from textbooks

By zerlina | Published: January 25, 2012
TweetThe Tennessee Tea Party thinks slavery is such a small blip in the story of America that they figure, why teach it to kids in school? Ya see, the Founding Fathers were such wonderful gentlemen, and they laid the foundation for this awesome country, and the fact that they owned human beings as chattel is an inconvenient [...]
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Quick hit: Preventing gender bullying in the classroom

By Chloe | Published: January 3, 2012
TweetAt the blog Together for Jackson County Kids, one elementary school teacher wrote a beautiful story about teaching young children about gender. “Ms. Melissa” had a student who was gender variant, and in thinking about how to make that student more comfortable in her classroom, she realized that all her students needed to be taught [...]
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The Feministing Five: Rose Lyn Castro

By Anna | Published: December 23, 2011
TweetRose Lyn Castro is the Project Director for S.P.E.A.R. (Samahang Pilipino Education and Retention) at the University of California, Los Angeles. After attending four years at UCLA as an undergraduate and doing two years of Teach for America, she got hired back to the same organization where she started doing campus organizing. Samahang Pilipino is [...]
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New Study: Sexual harassment prevalent in grades 7 to 12

By Vanessa | Published: November 7, 2011
TweetThe New York Times reports: Nearly half of 7th to 12th graders experienced sexual harassment in the last school year, according to a study scheduled for release on Monday, with 87 percent of those who have been harassed reporting negative effects such as absenteeism, poor sleep and stomachaches. On its survey of a nationally representative [...]
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