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School's Out, Progress Is In

K. Sujata | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Girls, Summer Camp, Teenage Girls, Summer, Summer Vacation, Women's Sports, Gender Equality, Girls Rock! Chicago, Girls in the Game, Title IX, Chicago Foundation for Women, Fitness and Exercise, Project Exploration, Chicago News
K. Sujata

This year we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX, which bars sex discrimination in publicly funded programs. It has increased girls' access to public education, extracurricular programs and, yes, athletics, for which it's best known.

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Women Leaders Behind the Headlines

K. Sujata | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Leadership, Social Justice, Fortune 500, Women CEOs, Rahm Emanuel, Grassroots, Bothaina Kamel, Chicago, The White House Project, 112th Congress, Community Organizing, Project Exploration, STEM Education, Women Leaders, Jill Abramson, Grassroots Activism, Chicago News
K. Sujata

While leadership is important at the highest echelons, we also need strong women at the community level. I'm encouraged by the programs here in Chicago that engage women as grassroots leaders.

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Can You Tell Me How to Get To Science Street?

Gabrielle Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Educate to Innovate, Sesame Street, Education, Obama Education, Barack Obama, Science Education, Equity and Education, Science Afterschool, Science Out-of-School, Afterschool, Minority Education, Project Exploration, Politics News
Gabrielle Lyon

One-day activities, demonstrations and short-term programs targeting highly-engaged students are not going to change who gets involved with science. Obama's "Educate to Innovate" does little to remove basic barriers.

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