In The News: Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education

World Wide Newses

The large development within the variety of girls in high school and school athletics 鈥 greater than three million in the present day, from 300,000 in 1972 鈥 led to the rising professionalization of, and curiosity in, girls鈥檚 sports activities, and the objects within the exhibition exhibit that depth and development: Billie Jean King鈥檚 tennis racket, the 1984 Olympic gold medal winner Mary Lou Retton鈥檚 gymnastics slipper, Serena Williams鈥檚 tennis costume, jerseys from skilled girls鈥檚 basketball and soccer groups and a basketball Barbie doll.

Minnesota Reformer

Between pay gaps, the pandemic, growing class sizes and legislative directives, 鈥渢he pressure on teachers right now is so formidable,鈥 one expert said

Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal

There is no question the NCAA women's tournament has grown over the past 40 years, but in many ways, the progress 鈥渉as stagnated, compared with how the men's has soared,鈥 according to Megan Ryan of the Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE.

Star Tribune

The event coming to Target Center this week has evolved since the first women's Final Four in 1982, but the biggest change has been in media coverage.

19th News

Between pay gaps, the pandemic, growing class sizes and legislative directives, 鈥渢he pressure on teachers right now is so formidable,鈥 one expert said.

Minnesota Reformer

Jessica Mueller was in tears after she heard Monday night that Minneapolis teachers were officially going to strike the following day.

dcist

During one week this January, a group of educators in the Washington Teachers鈥 Union posted selfies to Twitter from inside classrooms, accompanying the images with #It鈥檚NotSafe. They rallied outside D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser鈥檚 office alongside substitute teachers, who were demanding higher pay.

The Center Square

The fight outside North High School in Denver was about to turn more violent as one girl wrapped a bike chain around her fist to strike the other. Just before the attacker used the weapon, school staff arrived and restrained her, ending the fight but not the story.

Film Threat

Samuel Song of the University of Nevada Las Vegas perceives school as a hierarchy, where students seek to obtain respect and popularity by putting others down. More often than not, minorities are at greater risk of being bullied and contemplating suicide, which the film tackles with great detail.

Vox

Vaccines were supposed to be a game changer for Covid-19 in schools. Back in the more innocent days of spring 2021, it seemed as though once the shots were approved for children, education could pretty much go back to normal 鈥 kids would get vaccinated, infections would drop, quarantines would become unnecessary, and teachers and families alike could settle into a new normal that looked a lot like the old one.

Education Week

The wave of teachers who ran for state office in 2018 was heralded at the time as a way to bring more attention to school funding and low teacher pay鈥攂ut new research shows that it may have also contributed to the record number of women elected to the state legislature that year.

Las Vegas Sun

Nancy Lough is the driving force behind 性视界传媒鈥檚 new sport management master鈥檚 degree program. The program, which began in the fall semester, boasts over a dozen students, and Lough thinks it can grow to be one of the most coveted degrees of its kind in the country.