The nursery school of equality

STOCKHOLM — At an ocher-color preschool along a lane in Stockholm’s Old Town, the teachers avoid the pronouns “him” and “her,” instead calling their 115 toddlers simply “friends.” Masculine and feminine references are taboo, often replaced by the pronoun “hen,” an artificial and genderless word that most Swedes avoid but is popular in some gay …

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai donates $50,000 to Gaza schools

Pakistani teen who won Nobel Peace Prize for education advocacy donates entire sum of World’s Children’s Prize to UNRWA schools damaged during summer’s Gaza war. Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for speaking out for girls’ right to education, has announced that she is donating …