California
How We Can Empower Girls Through Sports
The U.S. Women's National Team is making a high-profile run through the World Cup, but overall girls aren't getting the same chances on the field as their male classmates. At high schools across the...
Student Voice
How This Music Program Is Helping Incarcerated Youth Tell Their Stories
More than 60,000 young people are incarcerated in secure facilities, residences and group homes, learning in alternative education settings designed to keep them in school or prepare them for jobs...
student achievement
Have We Been Paying Too Much Attention to Girls in School at the Expense of Boys?
Legendary actress Meryl Streep recently garnered a considerable amount of media attention during a Vanity Fair panel about the second season of HBO’s series “Big Little Lies.” Much to the surprise of...
Teaching
Six Things Every Teacher Should Make Time for This Summer
Summer has begun and another academic year has officially ended…or as we exhausted educators like to say, “Tag parents! You’re it!” Truth be told, May is always a bittersweet month for me and most...
equity
3 Things That Could Help Get More Girls In STEM
In middle school, I was the girl who would rather figure out math problems over discussing the latest fashion trends or lip gloss shade. Despite my infatuation with math and science and the fact that...
Teaching
I Thought I Failed My Kindergartners This Year, But I Was Wrong
Going into the last month of school, I felt like a failure. All year long, I had been trying to juggle teaching my class of kindergartners, while at the same time dealing with an unusually...