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…
Closing the Gender Gap in Educational Leadership From coast to coast, men are replacing women in education leadership at alarming rates. By: Julia Rafal-Baer The pandemic has impacted every facet of American education and the consequences, both academic and beyond, could reverberate for decades to come. But while much of the focus of the pandemic’s effects has been on classroom experiences…
To Teach Women in Colonial India: New Novel By Harini Nagendra By: Harini Nagendra “I have brothers and sisters and I find that my sisters are as intelligent as my brothers.” Digitally leafing through stacks of archival documents on 20th century colonial Bangalore as part of my academic research on the city’s ecological history, this sentence struck me with force.…
A Project for Girls’ Education in Mali How Fatouma is continuing her education following COVID-19 school closures in Mali By UNESCO “I had to work to help my parents and support the family during COVID-19. The sensitization sessions gave me the strength to go back to school.” Fatouma Adiawiakoye, a primary school student aged 13 from the Timbuktu region in…
Afghan Women’s Education vs. The Taliban Afghans who want teen girls back in school have new allies: Taliban-affiliated clerics By Fazelminallah Qazizia and Diaa Hadid KABUL, Afghanistan – Girls have pretty much been unable to attend secondary school in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power nine months ago. Public protests – with demonstrators shouting “We are sick of captivity!” –…
Fighting for Women’s Education in Afghanistan When Matiullah Wesa was 9 years old, Taliban insurgents torched his community school in Marouf District in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province. Terrified and disappointed, Wesa thought this marked the end of his education because there was no other school in his war-ravaged village. Fearing more Taliban violence, the villagers forced Wesa’s father, who was…
Although currently shuttered, like almost all of New York City, due to the coronavirus pandemic, A Good Call opened its doors on International Women’s Day — March 6 — with a goal of purchasing New Yorkers’ unused smartphones and sending them to women living in underserved countries worldwide.
Canada says it plans to provide $2.9bn (£2.2bn; €2.5bn) with the help of its G7 partners to fund education for the world’s poorest girls and women. UK and the World Bank also commited funds for education for girls and women. The money will help fund equal access to education and learning opportunities in countries across the globe, a government statement…
