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Archive for category: Lights4Girls

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A History of Women’s Basketball

Thalia, , May 11, 2017May 11, 2017, Gender Equity (Women), Lights4Girls, Sports, Spring 2017, 1

Basketball was created in 1891. One year later, a teacher named Sendra Berenson, organized the first women’s basketball...

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Rape Culture is Unacceptable

Hadley, , November 2, 2016November 4, 2016, 2nextprez, Fall 2016, Lights4Girls, Rape Culture, Repentino., Showcase, 5

Works Cited “91 Percent of Colleges Reported Zero Incidents of Rape in 2014.” AAUW: Empowering Women Since 1881. N.p.,...

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A Day in a Girl’s Life from Bumpe, Sierra Leone

Abby, , October 29, 2016November 26, 2016, Affordable and Clean Energy, Call to Action, Gender, Gender Equity (Women), Lights4Girls, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Quality Education, Repentino., Showcase, War, 5

See us on the “A Day in a Girl’s Life” map, and see other links under the Call to...

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Can solar lanterns change girls’ lives in Sierra Leone?

Abby, , October 18, 2016November 26, 2016, Call to Action, Gender, Gender Equity (Women), Inquiry, Lights4Girls, No Poverty (Economy), Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Quality Education, Repentino., Showcase, War, 4

I’m a co-founder of Connected. United. 4Change, and Bumpe, Sierra Leone, is C.U.4C‘s first international partner school. The school...

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This is a youth-powered social network and multimedia publishing platform that was started in 2003 by a group of teachers from local sites of the National Writing Project.

We merged several earlier blogging projects. We have found that there are many advantages to bringing students together in one site that lives beyond any particular class. It’s easier for individual students to read and write about their own passions, to connect with other students, comment on each other’s work, and create multimedia posts for each other. Further, it’s been exciting for us to pool our knowledge about curriculum, connected learning, and digital literacies.

There are over 9,500 posts and over 16,000 comments by young people on the site on topics as diverse as the American Dream, Shakespeare, and sports as well as original poems and stories.

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If being part of such a community makes sense to you, we invite you to join us. We welcome all youth and any teacher interested in having students publish online and participate in the give and take of a social network like Youth Voices.