Girls’ Schools and “Black@_____”
From National Coalition for Girls’ Education (NCGS)
Raising Girls’ Voices Blog, September 4, 2020
The deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd and countless others before them—and since them—and the resulting outcry for anti-racist actions is deeply poignant for the students in our care at girls’ schools. Our students’ calls for action to fight racial injustice is directly related to the values and principles inherent in girls’ schools and the work we do to foster student voices.
Whether it was the Ursuline Sisters hundreds of years ago, Emma Willard over 200 years ago, Ann Tisch 25 years ago founding The Young Women’s Leadership Schools that sparked a movement of new public girls’ schools, Shabana Basij-Rasikh who 12 years ago had a mission to provide access to quality education for girls across her homeland of Afghanistan, or Dr. Liz Hicks who witnessed earlier this year her school’s first graduating class at the Girls’ Academic Leadership Academy, all of these founders had a common vision: to create a more just world by educating girls in schools that place them at the center.
