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National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation
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Archived News

July 29, 2010

Bredesen Signs Executive Order Establishing STEM Innovation Network
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July 28, 2010

More Faces of Women and Girls in STEM

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(Office of Science and Technology Policy)
President Obama launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign last November to improve the participation and performance of America’s students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Last week, representatives from national organizations that are focused on increasing participation and performance of women and girls in STEM fields held a meeting in Washington, DC to develop recommendations to help improve "Educate to Innovate."
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July 27, 2010

DOT expands internship program to get more women working in transportation
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July 26, 2010

Families Can’t Afford the Gender Wage Gap

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(Center for American Progress)
It’s no longer breaking news this Equal Pay Day that women are a crucial part of today’s workforce. Women edged up to just 50 percent of workers on U.S. payrolls for the first time in October 2009, and two-thirds of American families with children now rely on a woman’s earnings for a significant portion of their family’s income.
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July 23, 2010

The Engineer's Pledge has launched!

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The Engineer’s Pledge is a call to action for members of the engineering community. The goal is to change how you talk about engineering in order to shine a more positive light on the industry.

To read the pledge and join our online community, go to:
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You can also find it by searching for "The Engineer's Pledge" on Facebook.

You can support the Engineer's Pledge by:
1) Taking the pledge at:
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3) Sharing the pledge with your friends on Facebook and other social networking sites
4) Spreading the word in your internal communications including e-newsletters, listservs, and blogs
Take the Engineer's Pledge and help let people know how exciting and rewarding an engineering career can be.

July 21, 2010

Why Do Girls Steer Clear of STEM?

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(Casey Selix, MinnPost.com)
As Normandale Community College in Bloomington prepares to host a July 26-29 Technology Engineers Camp for Her (TECH) aimed at sixth- and seventh-grade girls, a new study may help explain why some girls steer clear of STEM fields. A Miami University team of researchers found that girls may avoid STEM careers because they are "perceived as less likely than careers in other fields to fulfill communal goals (e.g., working with or helping other people)," according to the abstract in Psychological Science, the journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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July 21, 2010

Subcommittee Examines Ways to Break Down Barriers and Improve STEM Education Participation Among Females

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(Committee on Science and Technology)
Today, the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Research and Science Education Subcommittee held a hearing to examine current research findings, best practices, and the role of federal agencies in increasing the interest of girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in primary and secondary school. Members questioned witnesses about the challenges that deter young women from pursuing post-secondary STEM degrees.
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July 21, 2010

Survey Suggests STEM Careers May Not Meet Girls' Goals

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(Minnesota's MinnPost.com, Selix)
Minnesota's MinnPost.com website reported that "a Miami University team of researchers found that girls may avoid STEM careers because they are 'perceived as less likely than careers in other fields to fulfill communal goals (e.g., working with or helping other people),' according to the abstract in Psychological Science, the journal of the Association for Psychological Science." Psychologist Amanda Diekman, who led the research, said, "We found that STEM careers, relative to other careers, were perceived to impede communal goals." The researchers "took surveys of 333 introductory psych students, 193 of whom were women," and "asked about their career interests, their abilities in different academic areas, and the importance they place on certain personal objectives." The more strongly respondents approved of "helping others, serving humanity, intimacy, spirituality," the "less likely the participant was interested in a STEM career."
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July 20, 2010

U. Va. Professor Tries to Measure Student Achievement in Science and Technology Fields

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(Staff Report, NewsLeader.com)
What does it mean to be an expert in science, technology, engineering and math - the so-called "STEM" fields, which change so quickly that before you've had a chance to boot up the latest electronic gadget, a newer version already exists? The work of David Feldon, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, is focused on answering this question.
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July 13, 2010

Rowan University Offers Engineering Approach to High School Lesson Plans

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(Jessica Driscoll, Gloucester County Times)
Teachers and high school seniors from around the state gathered at Rowan Hall this week to work with engineering faculty on design projects that can be integrated into classroom lessons. Originally, the program was only open to teachers. Since last year, high school seniors considering a future in engineering or technology education have been welcomed as well. For example, Rowan associate professor of mechanical engineering, showed teachers in the sports workshop how they could connect science and engineering with a more-commonly recognized and understood topic.
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July 9, 2010

Can Building Robots Reboot Education?

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(Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic)
Some technology experts, such as MAKE Magazine founder Dale Dougherty and Pixar's Tony DeRose, are promoting hands-on learning through the practice of making things as a method for revitalizing education, particularly in the STEM fields. DeRose has created a program to involve children in "technologically sophisticated projects," according to this article, and both DeRose and Dougherty are developing the principles needed to create a curriculum based on the maker ethic.
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June 23, 2010

Blinding the Students with Science

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(Sharon Weatherall, Free Press)
U.S. native chemical engineer Dr. Nancy Jackson, told Beausoleil First Nation students that, because of her people's strong relationship to the Earth, she wanted to "work in technologies that would not damage the environment." Jackson, who spoke at a recent symposium manages the International Chemical Threat Reduction Department in Sandia National Laboratories. A highlight of her career was when Jackson was presented with an award for overall leadership and technical achievement. During her acceptance speech she warned young Native Americans to protect their lands from exploitation for energy resources. She wants this passion for protecting the Earth passed on to future generation and says "it is important that Indians take the lead."
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June 9, 2010

Analysis Finds Technical Nature of Science, Engineering Not Behind Exit Of Women

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(Summary from 6/9/10 ACTE Career Tech Update)
In an opinion article for Forbes, Jennifer Hunt explores the idea that women are "exiting from science and engineering disproportionately," and asks if this is the case, "is this exodus simply a hallmark of male-dominated fields in general, or is it specific to science and engineering?" Hunt notes the "importance of comparing science and engineering with other fields," particularly if those fields share common factors such as long or nontraditional work hours, so as to better determine if "explanations related to the specific technical nature of science and engineering work can be eliminated." Hunt concludes "explanations hinging on the precise nature of engineering work should be discarded," and "instead, remedies should be applied to all fields with a high share of male workers."
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June 1, 2010

Entrepreneurial Women Claim High-tech Turf

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(Aimee Miles, Palo Alto Online)
Silicon Valley is a beacon of hope for entrepreneurs. But with women-founded, venture-backed startups accounting for just 8 percent of the total, it's clear that women in the valley's high-tech sector who channel that potential into high-growth, scalable companies are statistically the exception, not the rule. That trend has recently begun to correct itself.
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June 1, 2010

STEM Education Can Help Prevent the Next Disaster

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(Eric A. Clayton, District Administration)
With oil continuing to spill into the Gulf of Mexico...it's time to begin grappling with the necessary question that legislators, bureaucrats and everyday citizens must now address: How do we prevent this kind of disaster from happening again? There are strategies and proposals being presented by engineers, technicians and other experts throughout the world, but the most sustainable and forward-thinking answer may lie elsewhere-in education. It is within the academic realm of STEM, often touted as the Achilles' heel of the U.S. educational system, that the foundations for future disaster-aversion could be built.
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June 6-9, 2010

The National Science Foundation will hold its Joint Annual Meeting (JAM)

The STEM Equity Pipeline’s Iowa Facilitator, Courtney Reed-Jenkins, was on hand for training and to discuss, present, leverage expertise, and create connections to the other research and education awards funded within each of the HRD programs, the EHR divisions, and in the co-sponsoring BIO and GEO directorates.
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May 28, 2010

U.S. Department of Labor Announces Career Videos Challenge!
DOL Youth Resource Connections
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May 20, 2010

U.S. DOT pushing for female STEM careers in transportation
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May 19, 2010

Become a certified trainer for NASA’s Afterschool Universe program!
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May 19, 2010

USA Science Festival Kavli Video Contest
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May 19, 2010

National Lab Day Video Contest
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May 19, 2010

White House to Host Science Fair
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May 19, 2010

House Fails to Reauthorize America COMPETES
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May 18, 2010

New Web-based Science Game for Girls Gets $200,000 Boost
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May 13, 2010

Want to be a firefighter? Know your math
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May 13, 2010

Follow-up From "Educate to Innovate" STEM Briefing
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May 10, 2010

Cornell Institute for Women in Science
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April 30, 2010

Two Programs Honored for Attracting Underrepresented Groups to Mathematics
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April 30, 2010

"Computer Science Education Week" Makes its Debut
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April 28, 2010

Closing the STEM Gender Gap
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April 16, 2010

Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley?
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April 12, 2010

STEM Equity Pipeline Leadership Institute
at the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Professional Development Institute
(Powerpoint and pictures from the event)

April 12-15, 2010

NAPE Professional Development Institute and STEM Equity Pipeline Leadership Institute
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April 9, 2010

Revenge of the Nerds: How Barbie Got Her Geek On
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April 9, 2010

NSF Seeks New Approach to Helping Minority Students in Science
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April 5, 2010

American Honda Offering One-Year Education Grants For Up to $60,000 - DEADLINE: Aug 1
http://cdpublications.com/freeresources/freedown.php?ID=145.

March 30, 2010

AAUW Presentation of Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Now Available Online
http://www.aauw.org/research/whysofew.cfm.

March 26, 2010

New Study Indicates Race Matters in STEM Retention
Recent reports about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) in the United States find that there will be a shortage of scientists unless the U.S. is able to recruit and retain Black and Latino students. Furthermore, many of the reports find that large shares of Black and Latino high school students do not receive proper preparation in math and science to succeed in the field. A new study, "The Effect of Instructor Race and Gender on Student Persistence in STEM Fields", found another important factor: the role of Black college instructors in encouraging Black science students to persist as science majors. The study found a statistically significant relationship between Black students in STEM majors having at least one Black science instructor as freshman and then pursuing their STEM plans; Black students with at least one Black science instructor as freshmen were statistically more likely to continue on as STEM majors than those who did not have Black instructors.
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March 22, 2010

Why So Few?
In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers? A new research report by AAUW presents compelling evidence that can help to explain this puzzle. Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics presents in-depth yet accessible profiles of eight key research findings that point to environmental and social barriers – including stereotypes, gender bias and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities – that continue to block women’s participation and progress in science, technology, engineering, and math. The report also includes up to date statistics on girls' and women's achievement and participation in these areas and offers new ideas for what each of us can do to more fully open scientific and engineering fields to girls and women.
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March 22, 2010

America’s Real Dream Team
Seeing the 40 finalists in the 2010 Intel science contest is a reminder of how great our nation can be with a constant flow of legal immigrants.
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March 22, 2010

U.S. Gets Poor Grades in Nurturing STEM Diversity
Two new reports focus on ways to spur more females and students from minority groups to pursue studies leading to STEM-related careers.
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March 22, 2010

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION TODAY
Attracting Women to STEM

Active recruiting and positive messaging can go a long way toward shrinking the gender gap in many science and engineering fields, an analysis released today by the American Association of University Women suggests.

In "Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics,” funded in part by the National Science Foundation, three AAUW researchers have collected the findings of dozens of other studies to produce a report on challenges that girls and women face at every step of the way in studying and working in STEM fields. The report also catalogs programs and attitudes that have been found to be successful in attracting and keeping women in STEM.

Described by co-author Andresse St. Rose, an AAUW research associate, as “a big lit review,” the report is not intended to be groundbreaking in its findings, but rather to publish all the best research on women in STEM in one booklet. “Very often there’s a lot of good research going on that gets printed in academic journals,” she said, “but the people who could use it don’t necessarily look there to find it.” In examining hundreds of studies, St. Rose and her co-authors -- Catherine Hill, AAUW’s director of research, and Christianne Corbette, a research associate – found eight major factors that helped depress the numbers of girls and women in STEM: beliefs about intelligence, stereotypes, self-assessment, spatial skills, the college student experience, university and college faculty, implicit bias, and workplace bias.

Though women made up the majority of U.S. undergraduates in 2007, colleges and universities awarded 138,874 STEM bachelor’s degrees to men and just 88,371 to women, the report notes, citing 2009 NSF statistics. More than half of STEM degrees awarded to women were in the biological sciences, where women make up the majority of students overall. (Women earned 48,001 bachelor’s degrees in the field, while men earned 31,347 in 2007.) Totals were substantially smaller for women than for men in physics, engineering and computer science.

But the report includes discussion of two studies of institutions that have been able to draw women to their undergraduate majors in those fields.

The Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science was able to expand its undergraduate major from 7 percent female to 42 percent female in the span of five years by doing more to actively recruit female applicants, changing admission requirements to include less prior experience with programming, and changing the “peer culture” of the major. A study that looked at physics department with larger-than-average female enrollments, as well as at historically black colleges and universities and women’s colleges, found that active recruiting, departmental social activities, and informal mentoring groups for female students and faculty could help attract and retain female majors.

More broadly, what the studies found was that “the climate of the department makes a really big difference about who’s attracted to the major, who chooses to stay in the major and eventually graduates,” St. Rose said. “The active recruitment of students is absolutely necessary. That’s a no-brainer but a lot of departments don’t do it, they just say, ‘Students will choose the majors they decide on,’ but inviting students to take an introductory course or to consider the major can really help.”

Even if a woman persists to earn a bachelor’s degree, a doctorate and a faculty job in a STEM field, she’s more likely than her male colleagues to be dissatisfied with her job, found Cathy A. Trower, research director of the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. In a 2008 survey of 587 women and 1,222 men in STEM faculty jobs at 56 universities, Trower found that, overall, women were less satisfied on all 10 of the climate-related criteria about which they were asked, including fairness in evaluation by supervisors, personal and professional interaction with colleagues, and how well they “fit” in their departments.

The recommendations: conduct departmental reviews to find out what the climate’s like for female faculty and then change the climate to make it more comfortable for them; provide mentoring for junior faculty; adopt policies that allow for work-life balance, like the option to stop the tenure clock for male and female faculty.

— Jennifer Epstein
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March 11, 2010

SPECIAL REPORT: THE FEMALE FACTOR: Risk and Opportunity for Women in 21st-Century
If progress has been dramatic since the two-time Nobel physicist Marie Curie was barred from France’s science academy a century ago, it has been slower than in other parts of society — and much less uniform.
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February 24, 2010

STATEMENT FROM JOHN LOCK ON LEMELSON-MIT INVENTION INDEX
Clifton Park, NY - Today, John Lock, CEO of Project Lead The Way released a statement in response to recently released data by the Lemelson-MIT Invention Index which finds among other things that:

  • Two-thirds of students age 12-17 chose hands-on individual projects and hands-on group projects as the type of classroom-based educational methods they enjoy most -- highlighting the need for non-traditional learning regardless of the setting (in schools every day or after school programs).
  • In the classroom, educators play a powerful role in exciting teens about STEM. More than half of students (55 percent) said they would be more interested in STEM simply by having teachers who enjoy the subjects they teach.
  • Mentors play an important role too, as 43 percent of students said that role models in STEM fields would increase their interest in learning about these areas.

Lock stated, "What this data shows is that not only are students interested in innovation and STEM-fields, but there are things we can and should be doing as a nation to spur their interest in becoming the next generation of innovators.

"The Obama Administration's 'Educate to Innovate' initiative is a smart and good start in that it encourages after school STEM activities and competitions for students. But without real hands-on, project-based learning happening in the classroom every single day, we are selling students short - as well as our country's economic future.

"As a nation, we need to be doing more to provide students with hands-on learning in the classroom. We need to provide teachers with the training, tools, and resources they need to challenge students to solve problems and think critically. And finally, there are thousands of businesses that are eager to offer educators their employees as mentors during the day and in the classroom who can help attract more students to STEM-related careers.

"This is exactly what Project Lead The Way's leading STEM education program does during the school day for over 300,000 students at over 3,500 schools for hundreds of hours - and this is where our leaders need to focus their efforts next if we truly want to 'Educate to Innovate' American students."
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February 12, 2010

Computer Engineer Barbie Has a PhD In FUN (And Breaking Down Stereotypes)
The Vote Is In: Barbie Unveils Her 125th and 126th Careers For the first time ever, Barbie asked the world to help her select her next career. Over the past few months Barbie did research around the world and also conducted an online voting campaign, calling upon the world to vote for her doll's next career – Barbie has asked her Twitter followers and fans on Facebook to help her with this important career decision.

But that's not all! Consumers loudly campaigned for another Barbie career. The winner of the popular vote is Computer Engineer. Computer Engineer Barbie®, debuting in Winter 2010, inspires a new generation of girls to explore this important high-tech industry, which continues to grow and need future female leaders.

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January 25, 2010

Girls’ math fears may start with female teachers
WASHINGTON - Little girls may learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers.

Despite gains in recent years, women still trail men in some areas of math achievement, and the question of why has provoked controversy. Now, a study of first- and second-graders suggests what may be part of the answer: Female elementary school teachers who are concerned about their own math skills could be passing that along to the little girls they teach.

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January 11, 2010

President Obama Announces New Partnerships Under Educate to Innovate Campaign
NSTA and PBS Initiatives Acknowledged at White House Event

Last week at a special event to honor the winners of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching held at the White House, President Obama announced several more public-private partnerships totaling over $250 million as part of his Educate to Innovate campaign to improve science and math instruction.

The public-private partnerships announced were Intel’s Science and Math Teachers Initiative; expansion of the National Math and Science Initiative’s UTeach Program; a commitment by more than 75 public university presidents to train 10,000 math and science teachers annually by 2015; NSTA’s Science Matters public awareness and engagement campaign and the PBS Teachers® Innovation Challenge; and the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships in Math and Science.

At the event the President also called on the 200,000 scientists and engineers working for the federal government to engage in National Lab Day (www.nationallabday.org)

Read the Associated Press article on the President’s announcement
Read remarks by the President on the "Educate to Innovate" Campaign and Science Teaching and Mentoring Awards
Learn more about the PBS Teachers Innovation Challenge
Learn more about Science Matters

December 23, 2009

Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)
The PAESMEM Program seeks to identify outstanding mentoring efforts that enhance the participation of groups (i.e., women, minorities, and persons with disabilities) that are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The awardees serve as leaders in the national effort to develop fully the Nation's human resources in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
(More Information)

December 14, 2009

Advancing STEM Education
NSF initiative brings together different scientific disciplines and diverse communities of faculty and students--often on the same campus
(Press Release)

November 23, 2009

President Obama Launches "Educate to Innovate" Campaign for Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (Stem) Education
President Obama today launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign, a nationwide effort to help reach the administration’s goal of moving American students from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math achievement over the next decade.
(Press Release)

November 11, 2009

E-Week Girl Day - Success Tips from the Experts
Tricia Berry, Paige Smith, and Jenny Becker form our panel of experts for this webinar. They all have award-winning Girl Day programs and are joining to share their advice and tips to help you plan the best E-Week Girl Day ever!

The panel will present information including:

  • Designing model programs
  • Sample schedules
  • How to recruit participants and volunteers
  • Collecting impact data
  • Lessons learned

Q & A Will Follow the Presentations
(Registration)

October 28, 2009

The Global Gender Gap Report 2009
Through the Global Gender Gap Reports, for the past four years, the World Economic Forum has been quantifying the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress over time. By providing a comprehensive framework for benchmarking global gender gaps, the Report reveals those countries that are role models in dividing resources equitably between women and men, regardless of their level of resources.
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October 21, 2009

A New Decade for Equity
NAPE's 2010 Professional Development Institute

(Registration)
(Call for Proposals)
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September 17, 2009

Data Driven Decision Making Workshop
Using the Five Step Program Improvement Process to Increase the Participation and Completion of Students in Nontraditional CTE Programs
(Registration Details and More Information)

September 1, 2009

NAPE Recruitment Announcement
NAPE is looking for an Assistant Director for the NAPE Education Foundation. Resumes are due September 30, 2009.
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August 31 - September 1, 2009

From Science to Business: How to Prepare Female Scientists and Engineers to Successfully Transition into Entrepreneurship
The standing Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (CWSEM) will convene a workshop to examine career transitions from science and engineering to entrepreneurship in the lives of women professionals and to identify specific skill sets necessary for them to become successful in the business world. The workshop will feature invited presentations and discussion that will give a broad overview of the status of women in entrepreneurship, with a specific focus on identifying knowledge gaps in women’s skills and experiences crucial to future success in business and critical for achieving leadership positions in entrepreneurial organizations
(Registration Details and More Information)

July 23 & 24, 2009

28th National WomenTech Educators Train-the-Trainer Workshop
Strategies that work! Learn "How To" Recruit & Retain Women and Girls in the Technology Classroom this semester and train others.
(Registration Details and More Information)

July 21, 2009

Science and Technology Committee Holds STEM Hearings
The House Science and Technology Committee's Subcommittee on Research and Science Education has held two recent hearings on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. On July 21, the subcommittee held a hearing titled "Encouraging the Participation of Female Students in STEM Fields." Prior to the hearing, ACTE shared its recent Issue Brief, "CTE's Role in STEM," with committee members. The Issue Brief contains a special section on the efforts of CTE programs to attract females and other underrepresented populations into STEM careers, including NAPE's STEM Equity Pipeline. One of the key themes of this hearing was the need for mentors and role models for female students pursuing STEM education programs, an area in which CTE shows great strengths.

The following week, on July 30, a second hearing,"A Systems Approach to Improving K-12 STEM Education," focused on efforts throughout the Chicago school system to enhance STEM education, was held. Witnesses emphasized the importance of partnerships between education and businesses, as well as other community groups, to help meet the STEM challenge.

July 15, 2009

New State RFA
The National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation is seeking three additional states to participate in the STEM Equity Pipeline Project starting October 1, 2009.

June 30, 2009

ACTE Highlights Need for STEM CTE Programs to Meet Workforce Demands
A new Issue Brief by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) titled, “Career and Technical Education’s Role in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math” describes how career and technical education (CTE) can help to meet the critical need of developing a skilled, professional STEM workforce to secure America’s economic future. CTE courses and programs strengthen students’ understanding of STEM content and attract students to STEM careers. (more)

June 11, 2009

Mathematics and Science Education
A new report from the Carnegie Corporation of New York-Institute for Advanced Study Commission on Mathematics & Science Education argues that the United States must mobilize for excellence in mathematics and science education so that all students achieve much higher levels of math and science learning to ensure competitiveness abroad and a vibrant democracy with social mobility at home. (more)

June 1, 2009

Girls worse at math? No way, new analysis shows
Girls can do just as well at math as boys -- even at the genius level -- if they are given the same opportunities and encouragement, researchers reported on Monday. (more)

May 7, 2009

Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap
The authors of this paper provide evidence to support their theory that a professor’s gender affects the performance of female students in math and science classes. (more)

April 18, 2009

Helping Women Reach Their Potential in Math
A nonprofit group in New York offers math instruction to help women move up to better-paying jobs. (more)

February 21, 2009

Kick Off of the Great Lakes Girls Collaborative Project in Indiana
If members of your organizations or agency are interested in increasing your capacity to involve girls in STEM through new collaboratives with others, come learn about a new mini-grant opportunity, network with like-minded others, and get information about the NGCP (National Girls Collaborative Project) and the GLGCP (Great Lakes Girls Collaborative). (more)

March 29-April 1, 2009

Partners on the Path to Equity: 2009 National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity & Women Work! Professional Development Institute
Doubletree Hotel, Arlington, VA
(STEM Equity Pipeline Leadership Institute)
(sponsorship or donor information)

February 19, 2009

[Iowa] State joins equity in sciences project
The living-learning community is among more than 100 such initiatives across Iowa that will now be coordinated at the state level through a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Equity Pipeline project. (more)

February 19, 2009

Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day
Girls discover their potential as engineers and learn how they can play a role in addressing the next generation's most pressing issues. (more)

December 21, 2008

Expanding Women's Participation in US Science
by Sue V. Rosser, Mark Zachary Taylor, Global Education, Vol. 30 (3) - Fall 2008 Issue (more)

December 8, 2008

Virginia School Tops America's Best High Schools List
For the second consecutive year, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., tops U.S. News & World Report's list of America's best high schools. The school, which focuses heavily on math and science education, bested more than 21,000 other public high schools in 48 states for the honor. (more)

December 1, 2008

Get Involved. Make a Difference. A Toolkit for Role Models
We are pleased to share with you Get Involved. Make a Difference. A Toolkit for Role Models, which was developed with support from Google and the National Science Foundation. This toolkit CD offers icebreakers and hands-on activities for role models to use in their outreach events. The toolkit also includes sample bios and agendas, questions to ask girls, questions for girls to ask role models, and a "Future Engineer Certificate" which role models can give to girls upon completion of their visit or activity. (more)

November 20, 2008

WAMC Radio Series on the Role of Women in Science and Engineering Now Available Online
WAMC Northeast Public Radio is pleased to announce that the radio series, The Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of Girls and Women in Science and Engineering, is now available for listening through WAMC’s Women in Science website. (more)

November 7, 2008

Engineers Make a Difference
Engineers Make a Difference is about “showing the color” of engineering and, as a result, capturing students’ passion, imagination, curiosity and dreams; to inspire them to create a life of abundance, meaning and satisfaction from such a pursuit. It’s about finding ways to attract diversity in traditionally white, male-dominated fields, and it examines how we can use engineering’s full rainbow of choices to enhance the public’s perception of engineering — making it more understandable, captivating and socially desirable. (more)

November 6-8, 2008

National Conference for Women Engineers: Women Leading a Technical Revolution
Baltimore, MD (info)

November 2-5, 2008

National Educators Workshop in Materials Science, Engineering and Technology
This year's theme is; It's a Materials World, Sustaining our Next Generation. Get ready to attend another informative and educational event at the National Educators Workshop held in Hartford, Connecticut, November 2nd - 5th 2008. This year's conference is being hosted by The Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing. (information)

October 28, 2008

Only Female Awardee for Cisco Scholarship in North America is Community College Student
Of the more than 500 applications submitted worldwide, 40 were awarded to students from 17 countries. Each provided information about education, experience, community service, and careers goals. Essays were also submitted on why applicants were applying for the scholarship and meaningful volunteer or community service experience. Of 5 awards in North America, we are proud that CNIT student Marisa Mariscotti is one. She is also the only female awardee in the U.S. Each award winner will receive $1,000 towards tuition in CCNA courses for the 2008-2009 academic year. (more)

October 28, 2008

Valley Girls: Padma Warrior
(Maggie Shiels, Technology Reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley)
In the first of a regular series of features profiling influential women in Silicon Valley, Maggie Shiels talks to Padmasree Warrior - technology boss at networking giant Cisco. (more)

October 21, 2008

Two States Added to STEM Equity Pipeline Project
The NAPE Education Foundation announces the addition of Iowa and Minnesota to the states participating in the STEM Equity Pipeline Project. Iowa, led by the Iowa Department of Education and Minnesota, led by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the Minnesota Department of Education, will be joining California, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin who participated in the first year of the STEM Equity Pipeline project.

October 16, 2008

AAUW to Launch Major STEM Study with Funding from National Science Foundation
AAUW Receives Substantial Grant; Work to Begin in January (more)

October 13, 2008

Redefining the Gender Gap
(Scott Jaschik, insidehighered.com)
Both male and female undergraduates are more likely to have higher college grades as the percentage of female faculty members increases. The more time female students devote to exercise and sports, the higher their grades are likely to be. For male students, more time on exercise and sports has the opposite effect. Women are more likely to report growth in critical thinking during college if they attend private colleges than public universities. (more)

October 10, 2008

Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds
While the study suggests many girls have exceptional talent in math, they are rarely identified in the U.S., because culture discourages girls - and boys - from excelling. (more)

October 7, 2008

Video Game Helps Math Students Vanquish an Archfiend: Algebra
(Winnie Hu, New York Times)
More than 100 New York City schools are using a video game called "Dimension M" to help teach pre-algebra and algebra to middle-school students. "You have to be at the top of your game," said Salma Nakhlawi, 13, who works to improve her math skills so she can play "Dimension M" with friends. "I used to hate math, but I've started to like it. I actually understand it more." (more)

September 17, 2008

Burmaster budget request includes STEM initiative
State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster’s 2009-2011 education budget request includes funding for a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiative that will reinforce Wisconsin’s competitiveness in the knowledge economy. (more)

September 11-12, 2008

Career Technical Education Equity Council Annual Conference
Tulsa, OK (more)

August 26, 2008

Gender Wage Gap Narrows as Incomes Rose in 2007
A new fact sheet released by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) shows that the earnings ratio between women and men edged upward in 2007, making up some ground after years of stalled progress. (more)

August 15, 2008

Where Are the ‘T’ and ‘E’ in STEM?
Some ed-tech experts are concerned that policymakers are overemphasizing the math and science parts of STEM at the expense of technology and engineering. (more)

August 7, 2008

Aerospace Industries Association and National Defense Industries Association Workforce Committees Meeting
Dallas, TX

August 5, 2008

Keys to Hiring Women in Science
Two sociologists who want to push the discussion beyond anecdotes and individual preferences think they have found evidence of steps that do make a difference in the recruitment of women for science faculty jobs (more)

August 4-6, 2008

Oklahoma Career and Technical Education Conference
Oklahoma City, OK (more)

July 28-30, 2008

Cisco Networking Academy Conference
Little Rock, AR (more) (Powerpoint)

July 28, 2008

Girl power! Summer camp grooms tomorrow's techies
These 'technology goddesses' could be your future IT workforce (more)

July 27, 2008

No Gender Differences in Math Performance
(ScienceDaily)
We've all heard it. Many of us in fact believe it. Girls just aren't as good at math as boys. But is it true? After sifting through mountains of data - including SAT results and math scores from 7 million students who were tested in accordance with the No Child Left Behind Act - a team of scientists says the answer is no. Whether they looked at average performance, the scores of the most gifted children or students' ability to solve complex math problems, girls measured up to boys. (more)

July 25-29, 2008

Association for Gender Equity Leadership in Education Annual Conference
Boston, MA (more)

July 25, 2008

“Girls’ skills at math at least equal to boys’”
In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in every grade, from second through 11th (more)

July 24, 2008

‘Nerd Girls’ out to prove that beauties can be brainy
Group seeks to shatter stereotypes and attract girls to technology careers (more)

July 21, 2008

A New Frontier for Title IX: Science
(more)

July 16, 2008

STEM Education, Girls, and the Challenges that Follow: From the Classroom to STEM Careers
Congressional Briefing, Washington, DC (more)

July 10, 2008

Texas girls participate in SMU engineering camp
The Dallas Morning News (more)

July 9, 2008

Cisco Networking Academy Conference
Portland, OR (more) (presentation materials)

July 9, 2008

Study Shows that Gender portrayals in Commercials Affect Career Choices
Men at Work, Women Sell Food, Cleansers - Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (more)

July 8, 2008

U.S. Navy promotes teen technology camps, competitions
MarketWatch/Medill News Service (more)

July 6, 2008

Sisters among top student winners at International Science and Engineering Fair
The Philadelphia Inquirer (more)

July 4, 2008

Maryland Women in Technology seeking information for an upcoming report on Women in Technology
(more)

July 2, 2008

Cisco Networking Academy Conference
Saratoga Springs, NY (more) (presentation materials)

July 2, 2008

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the Wisconsin Technical College System release press announcement about their participation in the STEM Equity Pipeline Project
(more)

June 24, 2008

Fewer Students Seek Tech-Related Degrees
eSchool News (more)

May 5, 2008

STEM Equity Pipeline seeking two additional states
Applications due July 18, 2008

August 7, 2007

Enrollment Surge for Women
(Andy Guess, insidehighered.com)
As concern has grown about declining enrollments of men generally in higher education, engineering colleges and technology institutes have the opposite problem: not enough women. But more than two years after Larry Summers thrust the controversy over women in the sciences into the spotlight, a number of technologically oriented colleges have posted significant gains in women’s enrollment that admissions officers are attributing in part to beefed-up outreach efforts. (more)