Standing up for teachers

Eugene Robinson writes in The Washington Post: “Teachers are heroes, not villains, and it’s time to stop demonizing them.”

Sharpen Your Pencils: Back to School, Feminist-Style

A new school year is fast approaching, and it’s time to get back into that school mindset. Among the many things kids will need to relearn, they should certainly review how to be a feminist at school. Here are some important issues to keep in mind as you, your daughter, or another girl in your life gets ready to go to back to the classroom.

Women’s Olympic success: a flood that began as a trickle

Sally Jenkins writes for The Washington Post: “The phrase running around the Olympic Village on the last day of the London Games was, ‘If women were a country . . .’ The phrase will be one of the legacies of the fortnight, certainly more last…