a selection of ideas

Curriculum is always gendered…so what?

Can curricular materials charged with violence in educational practices guarantee safety?

The assumptions of “the absent boys” explanation combats what many gender-segregated girls’ schools hope to accomplish—girls as powerful agents of their lives, their bodies, and their futures.

What’s so feminist about “having it all”?

Increasingly neuroscience is invoked to tell us the nature of human beings and their cognitive capacities. Schools rely heavily on that science, and it informs our understandings of the education of girls.