Education in Trump’s America

The election of President-elect Donald Trump has made many things uncertain both in America and around the world. One area with special cause for concern is that of education. The Department of Education, districts, and schools could probably all foresee...

Madrasas to the Aid!

  “We call them Black crows. The girls who wear hijabs.” says 19 year Tina Razimi in an Al Jazeera documentary. She is talking about the girls who attend madrasas, the religious schools in Kunduz, a city that was once a...

Education, violence, and the White Ribbon Oath

Anyone can be subject to violence that deeply impacts their life and ability to function in society. However, approaches to ending violence in education often focus solely or majorly on violence against women and girls. There are of course extremely...

School Textbooks and Gender Bias…are we doing enough?

That gender bias exists in literature is a fact, one that is corroborated by various researches done over the past few decades. In my blog post ‘A book for a girl and a book for a boy’ the numbers illustrate...

For Little Black Girls and Little Black Boys

Black boys aren't reading at the rate they should be. They're in crisis. Only 10% of eighth-grade boys in the U.S. read at the level they should as compared to 46% and 17% of white and black students respectively (EdWeek)....