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The centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment’s passage and ratification seems an apt occasion to reflect on the long and ongoing struggle to achieve equality for women and to consider how the ideals of of women’s rights advocates remain unrealized. In fact, scholars need look no further than their campus environments to see how gender-based inequities persist. Learn More ›
The likelihood of being involved in a mass shooting is exceedingly slight, as unlikely as being struck by lightning and overall violence in schools has been on the decline for decades. Yet, according to the Pew Research Center, a majority of students are afraid they, themselves, are going to be shot. Learn More ›
Some solutions proposed to address the “fake news” problem have been enacted with a modicum of success, but they do little to address a more fundamental issue—the general lack of critical media literacy skills and dearth of civic online reasoning among internet users, especially the young. Learn More ›
With estimates suggesting there are over 1 million undocumented students in American classrooms and over 5 million students with at least one undocumented parent, the issue of undocumented immigration is one that teachers across the country must contend with in a significant way. Learn More ›