Michelle Obama Gives Speech Promoting Let Girls Learn in Argentina -...
Google Argentina shared a video from the Obama visit to Argentina, where Michelle Obama and Argentinian First Lady Juliana Awada spoke about the importance of education to young girls. Obama spoke...
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Obama Administration Issues Directive to Public Schools On Transgender Access...
The Obama administration is issuing a directive to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and other facilities that align with their gender identity. A letter to school districts is going out...
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Girls Beat Boys in First National Test in Technology and Engineering
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a test given to eighth grade students in public and private schools nationwide every two years to test their proficiency in various subjects...
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California Board of Education Expands Curriculum to Include LGBTQIA History
Yesterday, the California State Board of Education unanimously voted on new curriculum for social science courses that includes “a study of the role of contributions” of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
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Teen Makes Grad Dress out of Math Homework to Raise Money for Malala Fund -...
In a bid to raise money and awareness for global education, 18-year-old Erinne Paisley designed a fashionable (and mathematical) dress for her graduation. Erinne’s dress was made out of old calculus...
View Article“Who Needs Math?” John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight Back-to-School Primer for...
John Oliver offers a subject-by-subject breakdown of what this coming school year might look like for a bunch of kids in traditional Last Week Tonight fashion … which is to say: hilarious and full of...
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Turns Out Heavy Reliance on Computers Doesn’t Improve Education, Distressing...
Computers are necessary tools to help students learn … about computers, that is. For other subjects, a study shows that heavy reliance on computers as educational tools doesn’t necessarily help...
View ArticleMichelle Obama’s Newest Education Campaign Enlists The CW, Vine, and More
Michelle Obama’s newest campaign for education in her Reach Higher initiative is Better Make Room, which aims to encourage youth to pursue education past high school, through college or vocational...
View ArticleMisty Copeland Launches MindLeaps Girls’ Program in Rwanda, Which Uses Dance...
American Ballet Theater principal dancer Misty Copeland knows what it’s like to grow up poor and what it feels like to have dance be an escape for the harsh world around you. Recently, she was in...
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Educators Whine About Trigger Warnings at Colleges; and They Say Students...
It’s amazing to me that this is actually still a “serious discussion” that’s happening. But apparently, too many college educators still completely misunderstand trigger warnings, how they’re supposed...
View ArticleCreationist Sylvia Allen Appointed to Head of Arizona Senate Committee on...
Ladies, Gentlemen, and non-binary people of Arizona, listen up! This is, Sylvia Allen, aka the woman who has just been appointed to lead the Arizona State Senate committee that oversees education...
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Malala Yousafzai Speaks Out About the Importance of Educating Syrian Refugee...
At yesterday’s Supporting Syria and the Region Conference in London, 18-year-old Malala Yousafzai spoke to world leaders encouraging them to pledge $1.4 billion this year to help educate Syrian...
View ArticleMichelle Obama Gives Speech Promoting Let Girls Learn in Argentina -...
Google Argentina shared a video from the Obama visit to Argentina, where Michelle Obama and Argentinian First Lady Juliana Awada spoke about the importance of education to young girls. Obama spoke...
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Obama Administration Issues Directive to Public Schools On Transgender Access...
The Obama administration is issuing a directive to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and other facilities that align with their gender identity. A letter to school districts is going out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Girls Beat Boys in First National Test in Technology and Engineering
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a test given to eighth grade students in public and private schools nationwide every two years to test their proficiency in various subjects...
View ArticleClik here to view.
California Board of Education Expands Curriculum to Include LGBTQIA History
Yesterday, the California State Board of Education unanimously voted on new curriculum for social science courses that includes “a study of the role of contributions” of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
View ArticleMichelle Obama Gave Her Last Speech As FLOTUS and We’re Not Crying, You’re...
As we enter into a new era that brings us a President who spends his days tweeting about television ratings, let’s make sure to appreciate our last days with the current administration. As of Friday,...
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Three Scenarios For My Valentine’s Date With Idris Elba to Support Girls’...
Listen, Idris, you don’t have to impress me. I’d let you be my Valentine without you having to do anything for it. But you just can’t help being socially conscious AF, can you? *sigh* Well, I’ll tell...
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Could Anyone Possibly Be a Worse Choice For Education Secretary Than Betsy...
Remember last week, when we were talking about the good news/horrible news of the confirmation hearings for Trump’s cabinet nominees, and I said that at the very least, it looked like Trump might be...
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Well That Didn’t Take Long: Republicans Now Want to Do Away With the Entire...
We haven’t even come to terms yet with the fact that Betsy DeVos–the woman who doesn’t know what the IDEA (the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is, has no experience as an educator, has...
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