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Boys are doing well in math and science, even better than girls who take the same courses and earn higher grades. But they aren't enrolling in college, and then persisting to earn degrees, at the same rate as women. From Education Week. Read Full Post >
Famed technologist Vinton Cerf lays out the problems he sees in our K-12 schools. Simply put, the culture is askew. And it can't help that we doing such a poor job educating young men -- those most likely to pursue science as a career. An increasing number of women are stepping up here, but the forw... Read Full Post >
The New York Times writes a (nearly) great editorial today about the slipping proportion of science and engineering majors (we now rank 27th out of the 29 comparable wealthy nations) and somehow neglects to mention why this happening: the campus gender gaps. Look at this 2006 study of California pu... Read Full Post >
That's the conclusion of this Berkeley study. That's not surprising. On state tests boys and girls score roughly the same. Actually, the overall trend is that girls are pushing ahead of boys. This study is important, however, because it cuts into the dangerous mythology that boys are good at math, ... Read Full Post >
Not that it will do much good to Larry Summers now, but Duke researchers make the same point that got him in so much trouble. Read Full Post >
The argument from feminists is that we shouldn't worry about underachieving boys when the world's elite, especially the risk taking entrepreneurs, are nearly all men. On one level, they're right. Those are the very top, from mathematicians to capitalists, are almost uniformly male. Was Larry Summers... Read Full Post >
I'll believe that we no longer have to worry about women avoiding tech careers when I see those Silicon Valley cubicles for code writers stuffed with women. Still, this article about female web entrepreneurs is hopeful. Read Full Post >
Black college students majoring in the sciences are more likely to persist in their studies if they have black instructors, according to this study. But women who had female instructors were no more likely to persist. Read Full Post >
In the schools I profile that are successful with boys, a common element of instruction is ensuring that math and science classes emphasize literacy skills. With that in mind I offer up this release from the International Reading Association: IRA Reading Radio Program Spotlights Presidential Aw... Read Full Post >
Okay, for anyone following state test scores over the past several years, you already knew that. But it comes at a good time -- [just when the White House is announcing a $250 million STEM initiative.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/05/AR2010010503981.html?hpid=morehead... Read Full Post >
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