Tomorrow, July 13, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce will vote on H.R. 2445, the State and Local Funding Flexibility Act, the third bill seeking to change the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). On the table is a change that would allow school districts to siphon funds away from the poorest schools [...]
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Schools Should Serve All Children, Not Just Some
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, tagged Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, Where the Girls Are on July 12, 2011, | 1 Comment »
For Women like Me
Posted in S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged achievement, Adriel D. Johnson, doctoral, gaps, Huntsville, Lisa Blanchard, Ph.D., Student Advisory Council, University of Alabama, Where the Girls Are on February 14, 2011, | 6 Comments »
I was in a room with the late Adriel D. Johnson, Sr. when he lifted his glasses to his forehead and asked, “Ms. Blanchard, will you be doing the Ph.D.?” I thought, Who? Me? Do I dare go for a doctoral degree, and in engineering? The question stuck with me though, and I thought for [...]
Equity Issues in the News: January 25 – 29
Posted in Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, AAUW Dialog, Catherine Hill, Equity Issues, Huffington Post, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Linda Hallman, Lisa Maatz, media, National Girls Collaborative Project, news, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, PBS Newshour, research, Shorty Awards, SOTU, State of the Union, The Secrets of Powerful Women, Twitter, USA Today, wage discrimination, Where the Girls Are, work-life on February 1, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
January 25-29 AAUW Marks One-Year Anniversary of Ledbetter Law with Call for Action The Huffington Post (Friday, Jan. 29) AAUW Executive Director, Linda D. Hallman, CAE, and pay equity activist, Lilly Ledbetter, called for support of the Paycheck Fairness Act in an op-ed that said: “A year ago today, on January 29, 2009, a new [...]
We’re Talking about Money
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged achievement gap, economy, Where the Girls Are on April 30, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
There have been numerous reports documenting the achievement gaps in education in America. Some focus on the racial gap, others on the gender gap, and AAUW’s own Where the Girls Are, released last year, focuses on gaps in educational achievement and attainment by gender as well as race and family income. McKinsey & Company recently [...]
Where Are All the Women?
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged engineering, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, STEM, Where the Girls Are on February 19, 2009, | 3 Comments »
I used to be an engineer. For eight years, I designed satellites. The work was engrossing at times, and I loved designing with CAD (Computer Aided Design). It was like getting paid to play a video game. But the more time I spent working as an engineer, the more interested I became in a problem [...]
Announcement: Where the Girls Are Panel
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged achievement gap, boys crisis, education, race ethnicity gender, Where the Girls Are on November 13, 2008, | 1 Comment »
This evening, report author and AAUW Research Associate Christianne Corbett will participate in a panel discussion on AAUW’s recent research report, Where the Girls Are: The Facts About Gender Equity in Education. Presented by Penn State Public Broadcasting , the panel will discuss the impact of gender, economic, and ethnic barriers to academic achievement. The event [...]
The Science of Title IX
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Title IX, tagged National Science Foundation, New York Times JohnTierney, science, Title IX, Where the Girls Are on July 17, 2008, | 4 Comments »
In Tuesday’s Science section of the New York Times, John Tierney looks at the effects Title IX could have in the science field, noting that the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Department of Energy have begun using existing Title IX laws to enforce prohibitions against sex discrimination in education programs and activities receiving public [...]
Rolling Down the River
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged blogging, goodreads, tweet, Twitter, Utterz, Where the Girls Are on July 16, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
At 4 a.m. one night last week, in a fit of sleeplessness, I couldn’t help drawing some parallels between a recent tubing adventure and a seminar we co-hosted at AAUW. Last weekend I went tubing with a group of friends on the Potomac River. After a lovely, peaceful, and relaxing first trip, we decided to [...]
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