Education / Tags / Girls

EDUCATION / NEWS Mon Sep 24, 2007 @ 9:42am neoform

Daily Mail -- Her face bloodied and battered, this is Bethany James, the latest victim of the pupil-on-pupil violence blighting Britain's schools. The appalling injuries inflicted on the 15-year-old are shocking enough. But what is more horrifying is that they were.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 5:58pm neoform

Reuters -- Telling girls that boys are better than they are at mathematics can irritate them so much that it negatively impacts their performance, according to a U.S. study. Researchers from three U.S. universities found that the threat of stereotypes could creat.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 9:35am mrmdc

www.nbc10.com -- A public high school has suspended three 16-year-old girls who disobeyed officials by saying the word "vagina" during a reading from "The Vagina Monologues." Their defiant stand is being applauded by the author of the well-known feminist play, who said.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Thu Jan 11, 2007 @ 9:37am mrmdc

CNN -- Math whizzes and other prodigies need not apply unless they can demonstrate dexterity with a pair of chopsticks under new entrance requirements announced by a Japanese girls' school on Wednesday... Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Thu Nov 15, 2007 @ 6:17pm neoform

USA Today -- At last June's graduation at Franklin High School just outside of Milwaukee, three of the four students who tied for valedictorian were girls. Among the National Honor Society members, 76% were girls. And girls comprised 85% of the students on Franklin's.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

SF Gate -- If a new girls bathroom hadn't been built at the N.V. Massaquoi School in this capital city's largest slum, 8-year-old Shalom Venson may never have returned to school. Before the restroom was installed in November, the elementary school's few female.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Tue Mar 13, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

News 24 -- The rules at Oprah Winfrey's ultra-posh school at Henley-on-Klip near Johannesburg are apparently so strict they make a reformatory look like a holiday resort. That's the word from upset parents, who say the school rules make it difficult for them to k.. Read More

EDUCATION / OPINION Thu Jan 4, 2007 @ 10:10pm neoform

Christian Science Monitor -- At the end of each school year, when she says goodbye and wishes her students success in high school, Martha Mohulo can't help but worry. A veteran primary school teacher in Soweto, she knows the dangers lurking in this sprawling, struggling township - p.. Read More

EDUCATION / OPINION Fri Dec 29, 2006 @ 10:21pm neoform

New York Times -- It’s hard to write this without sounding like a prig. But it’s just as hard to erase the images that planted the idea for this essay, so here goes. The scene is a middle school auditorium, where girls in teams of three or four are bopping to pop songs.. Read More