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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Description: What does it take for all girls to achieve? What will it take to remove the seen and unseen barriers-- some a matter of policy and others cultural practice--to more girls achieving the equitable education that is their human right? Sally Nuamah has an answer to these questions. She is the author of How Girls Achieve(Harvard University Press, 2019). Nuamah is assistant professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, a documentarian, and entrepreneur.Drawing on ethnographic research in classrooms in the United States, Ghana, and South Africa, Nuamah calls for a new approach...