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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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Bonnie Goldstein just posted a great " Hot Document "—the police report filed by the mom in Port St. Lucie, Fla., whose 5-year-old son was "voted out" of his kindergarten class by his teacher and classmates because he was disruptive. I was grateful to Read More...
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Interesting report, released today by the American Association of University Women, which says that the idea of a boys' crisis in education is so much bull. Being one of those women who struggled in school with math (because it did not interest me, or Read More...
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Judith, I agree that the right messenger (at the right moment) could deliver most of your speech on gender. But maybe it would be easier for a woman to achieve liftoff. Anybody else remember Nicole Hollander 's Sylvia cartoon on the wage gap? From her Read More...
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It would have been just one more distressing story about a controversial, possibly threatening student essay; gun possession on campus ; and an expulsion and involuntary hospitalization in Virginia. There are almost too many layers to untangle: The 23-year-old Read More...
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Wow, Dahlia , thanks for sharing that story on "young" parents in the WaPo . I'm not quite sure I get the point of the article, but it leaves me with a million random thoughts. First off, it puts to rest the notion that only women write puff pieces . Read More...
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Did anyone else find the Washington Post ’s front page story today about “young” college-educated parents just surreal? (Disclosure: They own us.) First off, all these extremely young parents who are not hanging out in bars or brunching with their buddies Read More...
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Via Ann Althouse comes word of an annoyingly frivolous potential lawsuit. Outraged over the fact that the University of Iowa outfits the visitor's locker room at its football stadium entirely in pink, a former law professor at the university is threatening Read More...
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Does anyone remember that ubiquitous ad from the ‘70s: "If they would just stay little till their Carters wore out"? I'm humming that refrain today as my oldest gets ever closer to kindergarten and my fears about the state of public education increase. Read More...
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Women may be underrepresented in the sciences at the highest academic levels, but through high school, female students perform much better than their male counterparts. Ironically, one of the first journalists to draw attention to this fact is Hoff Sommers, Read More...
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College kids, I would say, are pretty thrilled to have controversial speakers, like Summers, who get useful debates going (and Dahlia, as you say, little kids love daddy playmates, and ignore puttering mothers). But at the risk of sounding like a schoolmarm—hey, Read More...
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