ACLU new lawsuit
http://washingtonexaminer.com/aclu-sues-w.va.-district-over-single-sex-classes/article/feed/2025186?custom_click=rss

http://mobile.blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/07/16/techgirlz-turns-middle-school-girls-into-tech-entrepreneurs/

Ed Week Discusses STEM Gender Gap

See the link for a discussion on STEM gender gap in US and internationally. Gender achievement variations remain. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/07/18/36stem.h31.html?tkn=QLOFABN4zRCfeGTamfPpPdMp87U1pvBAjtq%2B&cmp=ENL-CM-NEWS1&intc=EW-CC0412-ENL

College Majors with Greatest Gender Gaps

This link was sent to me, still some large gaps remain. http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2012/10-college-majors-with-the-biggest-gender-gap/#.T_EgULUjF_Y Take a moment and consider the connections between the majors drawing girls and the ones drawing boys. What do they have in common? Specifically, who or what do they work with?

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