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Dear ASTCers,
I wondered if some of you might be interested in this article about engaging girls in STEM:
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http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/09/08/engaging-girls-in-stem.aspx
Engaging Girls in STEM
* By Bridget McCrea
* 09/08/10
There may not be one all-encompassing solution to STEM gender equity, but there are some tools that can help get girls interested in STEM and keep them engaged with it through their secondary and post-secondary education--ranging from investments in professional development to simple, everyday encouragement.
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The results are in, and girls in the United States aren't any more interested in STEM (science, technology, math and engineering) careers than they were 10 or 20 years ago. More alarming is the fact that those girls who do take an interest in such subjects at the middle school and high school level tend to drift to other interests in college. The trend is raising red flags all across academia, where teachers and administrators are struggling to ward it off and get female students more interested in STEM.
In a recent study on Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math from Florida Gulf Coast University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, researchers found that in the United States, two-thirds of young children (boys and girls alike) said they like science. The numbers began to diverge in middle school and became more obvious in high school, where "many girls who take advanced science courses in middle school do not continue to study science in high school," according to the report.<snip - please see link for complete article>
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- Len
Len Adams
Health Promotion Specialist
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Dept.
3629 South D Street, MS:315
Tacoma, WA 98418-6813
253 798-6129
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
- Stephen King
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