Raising Girls’ Voices Blog
Educating Girls: Work That Matters
I was recently asked to reflect on why I spent my forty-year career as an educator in girls’ schools, focused...
Speaking Up for Global Girls’ Education
Assembled at the second Global Forum on Girls’ Education are the world’s leading educators, researchers, advocates, and authors on girls’...
Summer Reading Inspiration
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” ― Margaret Fuller* Girls’ schools inspire the next generation of young women to lead...
Lessons from Iceland, the World’s Most Women-Empowering Nation
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, I find myself thinking about role models who inspire gender equity and encourage political...
Our Students, Our Schools, Our Future
NCGS engages the power of many voices to strengthen our schools, communities, and world. Now is a time when we...
Trailblazer and Changemaker: Billie Jean King
A trailblazer and changemaker on and off the tennis court, Billie Jean King, named one of the “100 Most Important...
To Inspire Girls Today, Honor the Groundbreaking Women of History
This weekend, one of the country’s preeminent computer scientists celebrates a birthday. Not Bill Gates or Larry Page. And not...
Fail Gloriously, Lead Boldly*
One of the highlights of my year has been meeting with a group of upper school girls (recipients of the...
Stand Up—and Speak Up—for Girls’ Education Around the World
In celebration of International Day of the Girl, NCGS launches, in collaboration with its Global Forum on Girls’ Education® II...
STEP: The Choreography of Life In and Outside of The Young Women’s Leadership Schools
If you want to witness the true greatness of America, turn off your television sets, stop listening to the noise...
Girls’ Schools: Where Girls Speak Without Interruption
The New York Times ran last week the article, “The Universal Phenomenon of Men Interrupting Women.” The article states, “Academic...
Summertime Reading for Girls
As another school year winds down, days are filled with final exams and report cards, end-of-year traditions and graduation. Then...