I’ve since become passionate about reducing sexual harassment and assault and embarked on a mission to create positive change in our community.
I understand why upholding the Constitution is necessary for our nation’s success and a well-functioning government. Still, I do not understand how a document written centuries ago can prohibit gun control for public safety.
The more I grow intellectually, the more I mourn the loss of young Afghan girls’ potential.
The capabilities of ChatGPT have many people wondering how AI can start being incorporated into daily life, while also raising concerns of AI’s impact on academic integrity and originality.
We were told we were “the greatest minds in the world.” Yet, I didn’t feel like a great mind. I felt exhausted and just so out of place. And that feeling has yet to change.
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have banned female students from universities in the latest edict cracking down on women’s rights and freedoms, sparking widespread despair and protest in the country.
At the end of March, the Taliban reversed its decision to open up education to girls above the sixth grade. Students reacted to the news with devastation.
14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the competition’s 96-year history.
Netflix’s new documentary, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, offers a glimpse into how fraught the application process is.
I find myself thinking of girls worldwide who missed out on far more than she did thanks to the pandemic — especially the many girls who will never see their classrooms again.
Last month, Utah lawmakers struck down a bill that would have required consent to be taught in sex-education classes.
The America of our history books is rose-colored, simple, and false.
On July 6, the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Program announced that international students had to enroll in in-person classes if they wanted to legally remain in the U.S.
With most schools across the country switching to online learning due to COVID-19, many colleges and universities have waived standardized test requirements in their admissions processes.
Will it finally lead to the real changes teachers have been calling for for years?
There is a potential solution to climate change that is as unexpected as it is potentially effective: girls' education.
While Girls Who Code made it clear to participants in the program that women in STEM face obstacles in the male-dominated field, though, I didn’t fully realize at the time the extent to which gender-based discrimination is common yet deceptively subtle in the field. I learned that as a computer science major in college.
Zimbabwean students, both male and female, are struggling to pay for higher education. In response, a number of female Zimbabwean university students have begun to engage in transactional sex to pay their tuition and otherwise survive.
In 2019, of the 895 spots Stuyvesant High School gave to the incoming eighth-grade class, only seven were extended to black students. The year before, only 10 black students were given spots, and the class of 2021 included only 13.
Men comprise the majority of the debaters who compete in American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) events. The majority of the APDA debate teams’ leadership, as well as the members of the national organization’s executive board, are also men.
It’s important for History.com to not only add more videos and audio that feature women who made a difference in history, but specifically to let these women use their own voices to tell their stories whenever possible.
Last week, federal prosecutors charged 50 people in a scheme to get the children of extremely wealthy families into elite colleges across the United States. These revelations have prompted a public discussion of the many ways inequality is perpetuated in higher education.
Thousands of Albanian students are protesting on the streets right now. But even though the media has started to cover these protests generally, it has failed to note the feminist principles at the heart of them and how women in particular have contributed to the movement.
Serbian astrophysicist Dr. Mirjana Pović told the FBomb about how her experiences have helped her understand the struggles impoverished people face, and how individuals from marginalized communities can develop skills in fields like STEM.
It’s not uncommon for Kenyan public schools to have a “no-hair” policy, meaning both girls and boys have to shave off their tresses, policies that are the legacy of colonialism and, as such, still perpetuate racism.