In terms of gender equality, schools are no different from other organisations.
I am used to sitting on a panel with some bishop or other to be informed that – although it may surprise me – democracy, volunteering, human rights, justice, the rule of law, freedom, equality, schools and hospitals are all artefacts of our Christian heritage.
In a valiant effort to equalize school budgets, when put into political context, moving from a property tax-based system to a more distributive one did not change the economic equality of schools in California.
It also reflects a changed climate for education philanthropy, as donors flock to newer ideas, like research into teacher effectiveness and charter schools, instead of the decades-old legal struggle for equality in school financing among rich and poor districts.
He also flatly rejects the canard that Prop 8 would keep children from being taught about marriage equality in school, pointing to the Ninth Circuit's observation that "[b]oth before and after Proposition 8, schools have not been required to teach anything about same-sex marriage".
To the Editor: Your editorial rightly praises the goal of the Title IX legislation: expanding gender equality in school sports.
As UNICEF explains, "educating children helps reduce poverty and promotes gender equality"; in school children learn the skills necessary for employment alongside life skills that can help them prevent diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria, and in turn, raise healthier children.
"I want to be very strong on gender equality in school," she says.
From challenging a major corporation, to promoting equality at school, to touching the hearts of thousands of strangers through song, these young people recently used the power of social media to change the world.
But we shouldn't allow extraordinary advances to overshadow the amount of progress we still need to make toward full equality at school, in public spaces, in the workplace - and everywhere in between.
