Rob Samuelson

Were you ever told you are not a “math person” growing up? That’s what the Ed Post team wanted to know this week. So we asked our readers. Question of the Week is back and we're starting off with a good one! Raise your hand if you were told or decided at a young age that math was not for you. We'll go first ✋. #math #education #edchat pic.twitter.com/mrzalGmAOJ — Ed Post 🎓 (@edu_post) April 21, 2022 “No, I told myself,” replied Twitter follower dejla.

I hear all the time that President Joe Biden is a “decent man.” He might very well be. He seems like he is in some cases. But nothing about his personal decency matters to me. Nothing about his personal decency matters to my family, my friends, my neighbors. Nor should it matter to you. That’s because his job has nothing to do with decency. The things that make Joe Biden decent are personal in nature and cannot, by definition, affect the public.

Schools, businesses, nonprofits, governments and militaries around the world are slowly waking up to the need to close the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields, and girls are succeeding more every day in these industries and classrooms. We need to do better for girls in many ways, including expanding their opportunities and encouraging their engagement in STEM, but we also need to commemorate every great step along the way.