(So do students in schools across the country.)
Category: Education
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.
Us Too: Young Feminists are Fighting to End Sexual Harassment and Violence in School
Teen girls want to address sexual harassment where it begins: in middle and high school.
I Don’t Want to Seek Out Sex Ed Online Anymore
The Internet’s power to foster safe communities and help educators provide free and easily accessible information about sexuality is great. I’m glad resources exist for people who need them, especially in the current landscape where sex ed is so politicized. But online resources shouldn’t be a stand-in for bad sex ed policies.
You Are Not Chewed Gum
In partnership with Trojan, Advocates for Youth today will erect a 20-foot activist billboard covered in chewed-up gum speaking truth to power. “You Are Not Chewed Gum,” it will read. “Information Is the Best Protection.”
Fighting Gender-Based Harassment in Schools Could Change Women’s Futures
“Sticks and stones,” we’re told. What’s worse, we’re frequently faced with the suggestion that perhaps we might have “misunderstood” what a boy said, or met with the idea that he “didn’t mean it that way.”
Congress Can Help Girls Worldwide Stay in School
It’s International Day of the Girl. Members of Congress should celebrate by passing the Keeping Girls in School Act.
We Heart: ASU Student Journalists Teaching Seasoned Reporters How to Break News
Beating out top news outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post, a small team of student journalists at Arizona State University’s (ASU) student newspaper broke the story on the resignation of Kurt Volker, U.S. special envoy to Ukraine.
The World is On Fire—But We Must Keep Teaching
On August 22, I went back to school to start my ninth year of teaching. The Amazon rain forest had already been on fire for three weeks. I don’t know if Lisa Delpit knew how literal the title of her book, Teaching When the World Is on Fire, out today, would be—but it illuminates the absolute absurdity of the world we are living and teaching in.
Let’s Talk About Sex (Education)
Imagine this: A young person walks in to a health care provider’s office armed with the knowledge they need and deserve about their bodies, their sexual lives and their choices. They are empowered and knowledgeable. Their diverse lives and backgrounds are centered. And their experience isn’t exceptional—it’s typical.