NAPE news
Dear NAPE Members,

The NAPE Education Foundation Board and the NAPE Executive Committee recently announced that Dr. Ben Williams will assume the role of NAPE's next Chief Executive Officer on September 1, 2018. In this role, he will take NAPE through its next strategic planning phase and work with the leadership of the Foundation and the membership organization to set direction for the organization's growth into the future. Learn more about Dr. Williams, and please join me in congratulating him!

Mimi
NAPE whereabouts
May 16: Leadership Conference 2018 Hubert H. Humphrey Award Dinner (DC)
May 16: Haggerstown Community College (MD)
May 22: Fort Worth ISD (TX)
May 23: Uteach Conference (TX)
June 5: West Mesquite High School (TX)
June 7: Region 12 (TX)
June 8: Monroe Community College (NY)
June 11: West Mesquite High School (TX)
June 16: The Gifted and Equity Conference (TX)
Publications
How the Education System Undermines Gender Equity
Joseph Cimpian, Brookings
Research shows that many American teachers carry unconscious biases that undervalue girls' intellectual abilities through every stage of schooling and that will require wholesale cultural changes outside of the classroom in order to be addressed. Read More >>
Career and Technical Education Programs in Public School Districts: 2016-17
 National Center for Education Statistics
The Center released its latest survey of secondary CTE programs in the United States. Read More >> 
Hard Work and Soft Skills: The Attitudes, Abilities, and Character of Students in CTE
AEI
Students who take a lot of career-and-technical-education classes in high school are hard workers who are less likely than their peers to skip class, a new study shows. Read More >>
Woman Graduating from Bakersfield Flight School Hopes to Be Part of Growing Trend
Emma Goss, Bakersfield Now
Taylor Thompson feels right at home in the cozy cockpit of the airplane she commands. At just 20 years old, Thompson is soaring into an industry where women often fly under the radar. More than 90 percent of pilots in the United States are men, according to statistics from Women in Aviation International. Read More >>
Time Demands of Single Mother College Students and the Role of Child Care in their Postsecondary Success
 IWPR
Single mothers in college full-time spend the equivalent of a full work day on child care and housework, and more time in paid employment than women students without children, according to a new time use analysis. Read More >>
New Approach to Apprenticeships
 Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed
Federal task force releases "roadmap" for alternative federal system for apprenticeships, with calls for more industry involvement and criticism of higher education. But questions remain about how the new system would work. Read More >>
Dress Coded: Black Girls, Bodies, and Bias in D.C. Schools
NWLC et al.
This new report, co-authored with 20 Black girls who live and learn in D.C., exposes common problems with D.C. dress codes, discusses their impact on students, and proposes better policies. Read More >>
Parent Toolkit: How to Ask for Schoolwide Teacher Training to Help Kids With Learning and Attention Issues
Understood
In this toolkit, you'll learn how to advocate for teacher training that can help your child's school better support the 1 in 5 kids with learning and attention issues. Read More >>
Why Using They/Them to Avoid Misgendering People Could Do More Harm Than Good
 Lena Wilson, Slate 
There is a divide in the LGBTQ community as to whether misgendering is inherently violent or not. I'm only one person, but I've heard from trans and gender-nonconforming people who agree they would rather be cluelessly misgendered than decidedly degendered. Read More >> 
Resources
CTE and Postsecondary Student Success Efforts: The Importance of Integrating Initiatives
This factsheet from Advance CTE describes how CTE and student success efforts can support each other.