In the years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic, the gender gap in maths achievement across US school districts had been narrowing steadily. Girls were not only catching up with boys but, in some ...

A version of this story was originally published by EdSource. Girls closed the gender gap in math; then the pandemic struckJust before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys’ scores in math and ...

EdSource · How a father’s detention shaped his son’s educational career For nearly 20 years, academic strategies, support and policies focused on closing long-standing achievement gaps in STEM between ...

NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will participate in the first National Summit on the Advancement of Girls in Math and Science. The summit is in Washington on Monday, May 15. It is sponsored by ...

After two decades in the education system as a math teacher, principal and administrator, Atiyah Harmon noticed a problem: young Black girls in middle school were increasingly disinterested in ...

In recent years, research on the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields has proliferated. (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.) STEM jobs tend to be higher-paying ...

DESTREHAN, La. — During a recent group project in her eighth-grade engineering class, Charlotte Buccola took charge. Standing between the two boys on her team, she silently arranged sticky notes on a ...

When the results came from the international study on reading and mathematics (PISA), it seemed to confirm the old stereotype that boys perform better than girls in math. In the US, girls performed ...

A study of Nashville high-schoolers exposed an alarming disconnect between Black girls and mathematics, one that might explain their lack of confidence in the subject—and why they don’t see how it can ...

A study of Nashville high-schoolers exposed an alarming disconnect between Black girls and mathematics, one that might explain their lack of confidence in the subject—and why they don't see how it can ...