Following a spate of high-profile sexual assault cases among US colleges, a new study (pdf via CNN) finds that many women are victimized before they even reach that stage of life.
Vermont Senator and democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill in the Senate to offer free college for all Americans.
A man accused by another Columbia student of raping her walked across the New York City university’s stage in a cap and gown yesterday (May 19), to receive a class of 2015 pin during Class Day, one of this week’s graduation events.
The internet is abuzz with news that Jay Z and Beyonce have reportedly donated tens of thousands of dollars to the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Activist and filmmaker dream hampton (she spells her name in lower case) tweeted on May 17 that she asked Jay Z for money to help bail out Ferguson and Baltimore protestors, and he “wired tens of thousands in mins.”
The American guitarist, singer, and blues legend B.B. King died in his sleep yesterday (May 14), according to his website. King, who was 89, posted his last message to fans on his website about two weeks ago:
In what looks like a small startup office in a New York financial district building earlier this year, a roomful of teenagers examined lines of code projected on to a classroom wall. The code made up Beyonce’s Twitter page, and the teens were figuring out how to collect and organize it.
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In case you needed another reason to blame your parents for how you turned out, it turns out that anxiety isn’t just passed down genetically—it also has to do with how you are raised. Parents and kids affect each others’ anxious tendencies just by sharing a roof, and that means parents can also play a role in reducing their children’s anxieties and their own, according to a new study out of King’s College in London and published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
US maternity leave policies show about the same level of appreciation as taking your mother to Hooters on Mother’s Day, according to the late-night comedian John Oliver, who used his show to call out US lawmakers’ hypocrisy when it comes to mandating time off after giving birth for the country’s mothers.
A year after Sheryl Sandberg added ”Lean In” photos to the Getty Images’ largely homogenous folio of stock photos to show realistic portrayals of women, Getty is entering another partnership to diversify its catalog. This one is a collaboration with Instagram, seeking photographers who use the social media platform to document underreported communities. The three winners will each receive $10,000.
A new set of dictionaries for second graders; the biographies of 14 composers for a classroom of budding elementary musicians; a rocket launcher and parachutes to learn about air resistance; a set of standing desks and desk cycles for restless students. These are all projects on the wish lists of US teachers who were trying to raise hundreds—or thousands—of dollars on the teacher crowd funding website DonorsChoose.org.
Greeting cards for long-term illness tend to offer extremely cliché attempts at inspirational messages: “One step at a time,” for example, or “Think positive and have faith.” Cliché is perhaps fine for a birthday card, but for a person dealing with the fear, anxiety, and stress (pdf, pg. 6) of serious illness, one often wants to convey support that goes beyond tired phrases.
The typical image of math and science teachers is something of a boring, humorless bookworm. But as it turns out, the best American teachers in these fields use creative outlets to spice up their teaching.
In his weekly show, John Oliver took on the absurdity of standardized testing, a series of interminable tests that American schoolchildren have to take at this time of year. Parents and teachers have decried the amount of time that schools spend “teaching to the test” and administering them. In fact, some parents and students around the country have gotten so mad, they’ve begun an “opt out” movement.
On May 2, Massachusetts’ Smith College announced it would be changing its admissions policy to explicitly allow transgender women to attend the all-women’s school. With the change, Smith joins a number of other women’s colleges in the US that have updated their admissions policies in an effort to become more trans-inclusive.
White Americans often use Asian Americans as examples of the “model minority,” a reference to the perception that they are high achievers relative to other American ethnic groups.
Over the last few days, the world has watched as some of the protests that spread though parts of Baltimore following the funeral of Freddie Gray, who died after he received a spinal injury in police custody, became violent.
Baltimore has experienced days of peaceful protests, as well as some violence and rioting, following the death of Freddie Gray and in the days surrounding his funeral. But while photos of rioters smashing windows and jumping on cars have so far dominated in the media, they don’t tell the whole story.
Baltimore faced a state of emergency yesterday evening (April 27), as citizens protested after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died after sustaining a spinal injury while in police custody.
For the past three years, third grade Colorado teacher Kyle Schwartz has asked her students to complete a simple sentence. “I wish my teacher knew…”
Earlier this week, workers in low-wage sectors throughout the US protested the low pay and benefits that often put them in a precarious financial position. Among them were child care workers, those employed both by childcare facilities and parents to care for their closest of kin.
As many as 30% of cell phone users in Africa report that they participate in mobile banking. A new report from the Pew Research Center shows the transformative power of the cell phone in the world’s fastest-growing market for mobile technology.
Half the teachers in US universities and colleges are part-time faculty. And 25% of those are receiving government aid because their paltry salary isn’t enough, according to a new report (via Slate) out of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.
Today, April 14, is Equal Pay Day—the day we remind the US that in order to make as much money as the average man in a single year, the average woman would have to work three and a half extra months.
