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 ...

Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, nothing happened. The ...

Boys are surpassing girls in middle school math and science achievement, according to new research comparing three of the nation’s top academic assessments. A study published Tuesday by the testing ...

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Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School in Irving, Texas, puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, nothing ...

Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School in Irving puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, nothing happened.

For nearly 20 years, academic strategies, support and policies focused on closing long-standing achievement gaps in STEM between boys and girls. These efforts paid off, and by 2019, girls’ achievement ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Despite persistent stereotypes, girls in the United States now perform just as well as boys on standardized tests in math, U.S. researchers said on Thursday, "There just aren't ...

The results are in — and they’re not great. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. International data on math and science released earlier this month gave the globe its first chance to ...

Just before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys' scores in math and finally closed the long-standing gender gap in a subject that is a gateway to the fields of science, technology, ...