STEM and Girls in NAEP

From the Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2012/0627/Girls-in-science-Gender-gaps-still-persist-in-STEM-subjects Worth reading because it links STEM results, Title IX, and briefly single gender classes. The paradox might be that is educators seriously consider gendered gaps,this will result in potential gendered solutions which gets us into differences. And, if we start talking about programs for just girls in STEM, even after school, then these groups are recognizing that something important and unique can happen in a single gender environment.

Girls and Hands On Science Do Better than Boys

See this Ed Week Blog on NAEP breakdown of performance by type of task. Seems girls perform slightly better, though statistically significant, when using manipulatives. Important data, yes. Implications? Reasons why? The use of manipulatives has always been listed as important learning tools, so that is nothing new. But to see that there might be something gender based with results could mean that educators should consider incorporating more manipulatives as needed for understanding. Sure. Could you even go so far as to say that you will have single gender groupings to provide the needed support and use specific strategies to support your students? http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2012/06/although_girls_trail_boys_in.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2

Article by Dr Sax on Girls, Knees, and Gender Differences
http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/sax-sex/201206/girls-knees-and-gender-confusion

Sex Differences in Suicide from Canada

Large study of adolescents from Canada found differences in number of suicides as well as form of suicide. http://journal.cpha.ca/index.php/cjph/article/view/3187

Title IX Commentary

A good commentary on Title IX and the needs that still remain. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/06/13/35graves.h31.html?tkn=YVNF50NuNfP%2BIBZ04Op%2FlqTIHE7ffYbybJBZ&cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS1

STEM and Girls, again

Excellemt article with data from Ed Week. Looks at national and international data. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2012/06/evidence_persists_of_stem_achi.html?cmp=ENL-CM-NEWS2 Again, it says that there is an achievement gap that is gender based and that gender must be considered to make achievements. They stress the socialization factors. We need though to be willing to actually teach differently or. Ore broadly to encompass the needs of boys and girls, to address the data. And, we need to look at the data for gaps with language arts and boys.

Conference on sex differences Http://www.newswise.com/articles/swhr-sponsors-first-ever-us-international-sex-differences-conference