Learning
Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Research profiled in this report shows that people judge women to be less competent than men in “male” jobs unless they are clearly successful in their work. When a woman is clearly competent in a “masculine” job, she is considered to be less likable. more »
So You Want To Be a Teacher ... Read This First: Review of Diary of an Inner City Teacher
To write about her students, her colleagues and herself without violating their privacy, she gives them names reflecting a notable characteristic. Moncur of course, is Ms. Teacher. Some of her students are Got to Blurt Out, Mr. Playful, Anger, Apathy, Missing Skills, The Intellect and A Really Nice Child. Teaching math to this varied group of sixth graders is, to say the least, challenging. more »
Stereotypes, Confidence and Math Ability
"Girls around the world are not worse at math than boys, even though boys are more confident in their math abilities, and girls from countries where gender equity is more prevalent. more »
Academic Earth, Civil War and Alcott's Hospital Sketches
"He lay on a bed, with one leg gone, and the right arm soshattered that it must evidently follow: yet the little Sergeant was asmerry as if his afflictions were not worth lamenting over; and when adrop or two of salt water mingled with my suds at the sight of thisstrong young body, so marred and maimed, the boy looked up, with abrave smile the boy looked up, with a brave smile, though there was a little quiver of the lips ... " more »
