* As the FAWCO Global Issues Teams work to seek intersections and pathways to support each other, Graduate Women International (GWI) is offering a parallel event that highlights how the accomplishment of SDG 13 can lead to the achievement of SDG 4. Click on the link below to join the conversation!
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools provides interesting but troubling reading. Author Monique W. Morris describes, often in narratives that individualize the problem, how Black girls’ behavior in middle and high schools is crimininalized, pushing the girls out of school. This pushing out makes it difficult for the girls to obtain the quality education...
With Martin Luther King, Jr. Day just celebrated and Black History Month upon us in the US, it seems an appropriate time to dig deeper into the history of African Americans. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson is a masterpiece of research into past and present realities, yet easily accessible.
Typically, the Education Team focuses its energies on shining a spotlight on efforts, concerns and victories in underserved communities outside of the United States. However, with so much attention recently on the Black Lives Matter movement, the confusion over critical race theory, the disenfranchisement of Black voters through redistricting and restrictive voting practices...
Searching for a unique way to express your love or appreciation for someone special this holiday season? Look no further than the list below, which highlights not only The FAWCO Foundation and books by FAWCO members, but also other education-related giving opportunities from around the world. From our homes to yours, the Education Team...
With the rising COVID-19 infection rates, countries have to again make a difficult choice between keeping schools open or enforcing a complete shutdown of schools and continuing with some form of remote learning. A far more difficult choice faced by many countries is to close schools again with the knowledge that millions of children will not...