Akpojotor Advocates For Girls’ Education in Nigeria Written by Rochelle Beighton, CNN Only 10 countries in the world have a bigger gender gap than Nigeria when it comes to education, with around 70% of boys in the country attending primary school, compared to only 58% of girls. It’s just one of the issues that Nigerian artist Marcellina Akpojotor addresses in her work.…
Just 13% of Superintendents Are Women. Why? Equal representation would benefit schoolchildren and the education system, says the director of USU’s Utah Women & Leadership Project. By Marjorie Cortez Two years ago, Taryn Kay was appointed superintendent of the Grand County School District, which meant she took charge in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. Her first year as superintendent was…
Education Department Issues New Guidance on School Discipline The new guidance comes at a moment of increasing mental health challenges spurred by the coronavirus pandemic. By Lauren Camera The Education Department released new guidance on discriminatory discipline practices for students with disabilities Tuesday – the most sweeping set of technical documents published on the issue since the federal disability law was passed…
Ex-Education Secretary Says Department of Education ‘Should Not Exist’ By Merdie Nzanga WASHINGTON – Betsy DeVos, who served as secretary of education under former President Donald Trump, said over the weekend to a conservative group in Florida that the department she led should be abolished. “I personally think the Department of Education should not exist,” she said Saturday during a Moms for…
Foster Youth Education in Michigan The state took children from their parents — then failed to give them a ‘real’ education. Foster youth in Michigan say the classes they took in state-funded facilities didn’t count toward graduation. Some dropped out. “I felt destroyed,” one said, “like everything I did was for nothing.” By Erin Einhorn DETROIT — Michigan is catastrophically…
Universities as Women-Serving Institutions Rather than focus narrowly on lagging male enrollments, consider what would it mean for a university to truly be a women-serving institution, Sanjam Ahluwalia and Frances Riemer write. By Sanjam Ahluwalia and Frances Julia Riemer We write from a university campus with a student body consisting of 63 percent female-identified and 37 percent male-identified students. Women now outnumber men not…
16 Healthcare Responses to the Roe v. Wade Decision By Erica Carbajal and Cailey Gleeson Hospitals and medical associations across the nation reacted to the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade by calling attention to the consequences it will have on vulnerable populations, and the increased demand providers will see in states where abortion services are still acessible. Becker’s compiled…
Title IX: Spectacularly Successful and Disturbingly Unfulfilled A lack of enforcement has blunted the law’s transformative potential By Anne M. Blaschke Title IX celebrates its 50th birthday on June 23. Signed into law in 1972, the policy requires educational institutions that receive government funding to treat all sexes and gender identities equally. This mandate has at once been phenomenally successful…
Reminiscing Omaha’s First Black Woman Principal By Sheritha Jones Edmae Swain started her first day as the first Black woman principal in the Omaha Public Schools on Sept. 8, 1964. Her career in education started as a teacher in northeast Omaha’s Long and Howard Kennedy Schools in 1947. Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Harry Burke appointed Swain principal at Lake Elementary…
What the ‘Roe v. Wade’ Ruling Means for Education By Sarah Schwartz The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, removing the constitutional right to abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years in all states and setting off a chain of effects that could have wide-reaching consequences for schools, educators, and the children they serve. The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health…
