How do you create community when you can’t be together? Schools are closed for hundreds of millions of students, but educators, parents and children are still learning—including how to keep a sense of connection.
Category: Education
The Trump Era Proves That Women’s Studies Matters
A while back, I received an email from my university’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) saying that my plan to research the history of U.S. Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) did not meet “the federal definition of research.” This sounded familiar to what I heard as a Women’s Studies undergraduate student 30 years ago: “What […]
How Black Feminist Scholars Remember Toni Morrison in the Classroom
To mark Morrison’s birthday today, black feminist scholars talk to Ms. columnist Janell Hobson their own best practices, their favorite texts from Morrison and how they choose to teach it in the classroom.
Their Eyes on the Goals
High school students in Southern California are answering the call to action and taking on the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Building Safe Schools for the Children of Asylum-Seekers
The Canyon Nest, a school 30 minutes from the U.S. / Mexico border, will soon provide education for children of families waiting in Tijuana while seeking refuge in the United States.
Where #MeTooK12 Meets #RollRedRoll
This Steubenville documentary will leave you “seeing red”—and hopefully propel more people in every community to join the movement against violence.
Two Years of #MeTooK12: Analyzing the Impact of the Campaign to End Sexual Harassment in Schools
On New Year’s Day in 2018, Stop Sexual Assault in Schools launched the #MeTooK12 campaign in partnership with the National Women’s Law Center. To mark the second anniversary, we’re looking at the campaign’s impact to date and where it’s headed.
Forming a Frontline Against Campus Sexual Violence
The University of Michigan Diag is more crowded than usual lately—because student activism against sexual violence is coming to a head.
“Hymen Checks?” Sounds Like T.I. Needs Sex Ed
(So do students in schools across the country.)
What Students, Parents and Teachers Agree on When it Comes to Sex Ed
Sex education can be a life-saving and-changing form of violence prevention. I want this—not just for my daughters, but for all young people like them. And I’m not alone.