ISTE's journal this month has some great articles! Check out the piece on girls and engineering on page 24. It's a middle school partnership with IBM in Vermont. If the link doesn't work, email me and I'll send it to you.
A "best practice" guide from the Institute of Education Sciences. Includes evidence-based recommendations for encouraging girls in math and science.
Video from Dove's "real beauty" campaign showing the onslaught of ads a young girl sees from the beauty industry
Girls who play interscholastic high school sports are 41 percent more likely to graduate from college than their counterparts, according to a study in the June issue of the journal Youth
It figures: Dads have a major impact on the degree of interest their
daughters develop in math. That's one of the findings of a long-term
University of Michigan study that has traced the sources of the
continuing gender gap in math and science performance.
Millions of children and adolescents are spending hours on these sites, which offer virtual versions of traditional play activities and cute animated worlds that encourage self-expression and safe communication. They are, in effect, like Facebook or MySpace with training wheels, aimed at an audience that may be getting its first exposure to the Web.
create a magazine, edit a tv show, compose music..
For decades, undergraduate women have been moving in ever greater numbers into science and engineering departments at American universities. Yet even as they approach or exceed enrollment parity in mathematics, biology and other fields, there is one area in which their presence relative to men is static or even shrinking: computer science.
The Girl Scouts of America seems to have started a campaign to promote math and science to young girls. With interactive games, parent information and other resources, this site wants to respark their interest.
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ISTE's journal this month has some great articles! Check out the piece on girls and engineering on page 24. It's a middle school partnership with IBM in Vermont. If the link doesn't work, email me and I'll send it to you.
A "best practice" guide from the Institute of Education Sciences. Includes evidence-based recommendations for encouraging girls in math and science.
Video from Dove's "real beauty" campaign showing the onslaught of ads a young girl sees from the beauty industry
It figures: Dads have a major impact on the degree of interest their daughters develop in math. That's one of the findings of a long-term University of Michigan study that has traced the sources of the continuing gender gap in math and science performance.
Millions of children and adolescents are spending hours on these sites, which offer virtual versions of traditional play activities and cute animated worlds that encourage self-expression and safe communication. They are, in effect, like Facebook or MySpace with training wheels, aimed at an audience that may be getting its first exposure to the Web.
create a magazine, edit a tv show, compose music..
The Girl Scouts of America seems to have started a campaign to promote math and science to young girls. With interactive games, parent information and other resources, this site wants to respark their interest.
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