EDUCATING GENDER

Gender, Bias, and How We Educate Our Children

Educating Gender

May 18, 2020
1 min

Gender, Bias, and How We Educate Our Children

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More Male Teachers in Schools, Better Educational Results for Boys? Not So Fast!

Educating Gender

May 11, 2020
4 min

More Male Teachers in Schools, Better Educational Results for Boys? Not So Fast!

The argument goes something like this… The preponderance of female teachers in schools, particularly at the elementary school level, may...

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Act Like a Man...Shifting Perspectives on Gender and the Art of Growing Up

Educating Gender

May 4, 2020
4 min

Act Like a Man...Shifting Perspectives on Gender and the Art of Growing Up

Boys used to wear dresses. In the 19th century, it was fairly common for young boys to be brought up wearing girls’ clothing until about...

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“Do You Think This Is Okay?”: Performing Gender and Disciplining Students

Educating Gender

Apr 27, 2020
4 min

“Do You Think This Is Okay?”: Performing Gender and Disciplining Students

Shakespeare makes many references to life as a type of play. The author imagines that we are all really on a stage performing our roles...

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Educating Gender

Apr 20, 2020
4 min

E-Systems And Teachable Moments

**Guest Blogger: Navah Kelman Becker I read an article the other day in The Atlantic (from 2015) about gender neutral bathrooms. The idea...

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Stop calling it Sex Education: Human Development Classes and Reinforcing Gender Bias

Educating Gender

Mar 23, 2020
4 min

Stop calling it Sex Education: Human Development Classes and Reinforcing Gender Bias

There is perhaps no more embarrassing moment in a middle schooler’s life than having to sit through Human Development class in 7th grade...

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Educating Gender

Mar 16, 2020
4 min

The Peace of 1815

If you are a student educated in the United States, it is impossible not to be triggered by the phrase, “the War of 1812”. Yes, of...

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Making the Learning of Math (and Education in General) More Elegant

Educating Gender

Mar 9, 2020
3 min

Making the Learning of Math (and Education in General) More Elegant

Somewhere along the dotted line of human history, we imagined that math was a subject that was known before it was taught. Inherent,...

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Playgrounds and Classrooms and Everything In-between

Educating Gender

Mar 2, 2020
4 min

Playgrounds and Classrooms and Everything In-between

Jessie is wicked fast. She’s so fast, that when she’s standing still she still looks like she’s moving. For months, the third grade...

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Educating Gender

Feb 24, 2020
5 min

Turning Your Classroom into a Chrysalis

There is a dirty little lie that teachers tell and it is a complicated one. “I don’t play favorites in my classroom. All of my students...

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Realistic Self-Defense Training: An Education for Everyone

Educating Gender

Feb 17, 2020
6 min

Realistic Self-Defense Training: An Education for Everyone

**Guest Blogger: Rachel Collins If you google “self-defense training near me,” or something similar, you’re likely to get relevant...

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Educating Gender

Feb 10, 2020
3 min

Whose Childhood is it Anyway?

I have two students sitting in front of me in my office. The teacher, as teachers do, has brought them to the principal’s office because...

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Educating Gender

Feb 3, 2020
8 min

An American Conspiracy

In 1893 the National Educational Association (NEA) convened a commission to make recommendations regarding what would be the content,...

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Tomboy Versus Sissy: Crossings Versus Boundaries

Educating Gender

Jan 27, 2020
4 min

Tomboy Versus Sissy: Crossings Versus Boundaries

As someone who has spent over 25 years hiring faculty and staff for schools, one of my favorite interview questions which I ask...

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David “Cockeyed Mulligan” Ablin: A Past History of Violence (Origin Story III)

Educating Gender

Jan 20, 2020
4 min

David “Cockeyed Mulligan” Ablin: A Past History of Violence (Origin Story III)

I am somewhere between 5 and 6 years old when my father began telling me stories about his father, my grandfather. The reason he needs to...

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Good Enough: Let’s Celebrate What Boys Know is True About School

Educating Gender

Jan 13, 2020
4 min

Good Enough: Let’s Celebrate What Boys Know is True About School

It’s the A-. On Monday, in my first of two sections of Advanced Placement English, I hand back a set of papers on King Lear. Unless you...

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Educating Gender

Jan 6, 2020
4 min

The Unbearable Choice

When we think about violence, it often looks 1) physical 2) taking place between a perpetrator and a victim and 3) worthy of intervention...

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Children are Complex and Inspiring and Challenging, not Innocent and Wonderful

Educating Gender

Dec 16, 2019
4 min

Children are Complex and Inspiring and Challenging, not Innocent and Wonderful

“What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has...

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There’s an App for That! Utilizing Technology to Pull Back the Gendered Veil on History

Educating Gender

Dec 9, 2019
2 min

There’s an App for That! Utilizing Technology to Pull Back the Gendered Veil on History

As I discussed earlier in a blog post about teaching history, students, because of gender bias, can miss out on critical dimensions of...

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Educating Gender

Dec 2, 2019
4 min

Let’s Talk About … Girls

Guest Blogger: Tracey Schreier** My four siblings and myself were born in the 1960s in Welkom, South Africa. Welkom was a dry, dusty and...

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