Gender Balance: Lessons from Girls in Science and Mathematics.

Pollina, Ann

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ERIC Number: EJ511718

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Publication Date: 1995

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Gender Balance: Lessons from Girls in Science and Mathematics.

Pollina, Ann

Educational Leadership, v53 n1 p30-33 Sep 1995

The female perspective is vital to scientific inquiry and science education. Three National Coalition of Girls' Schools symposia demonstrate educators' need to connect math, science, and technology to the real world; choose metaphors carefully; foster collaboration; encourage girls to be experts and technology controllers; and capitalize on girls' verbal strengths. (MLH)

Descriptors: Change Strategies, Coeducation, Feminism, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Secondary Education, Sex Bias, Single Sex Schools, Student Centered Curriculum, Technology Education

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Language: English

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