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...thing we know about the brain is that it is vulnerable to the power of suggestion. There is plenty of evidence that when young women are motivated and encouraged, they excel at science. For most of the 1800s, for example, physics, astronomy, chemistry and botany were considered gender-appropriate subjects for middle-and upper-class American girls. By the 1890s, girls outnumbered boys in public high school science courses across the country, according to The Science Education of American Girls, a 2003 book by Kim Tolley. Records from top schools in Boston show that girls outperformed boys in physics...
Attitude makes a big difference. Research by Stanford University's dean of education, Deborah Stipek, and others indicates that by age 12 children have formed hard and fast beliefs about the subjects at which they excel and those in which they fail. Perhaps that's why last year only half as many girls as boys chose to take advanced-placement tests in physics. To even out those numbers, former astronaut Sally Ride launched a science camp two summers ago that so far has kindled the interests of nearly 800 middle school girls...
...think I will be a pharmacist," says Heidarsdottir. The teens sat in principal Gudjon Kristjansson's office last week, waiting for a ride to the nearby town of Kevlavík, where they were competing in West Iceland's yearly math contest, one of many throughout Iceland in which girls excel...
...Riain continued to excel at the top of the ladder, defeating No. 47 Helga Vieira in two straight. Alexis Martire gave Harvard a 3-1 lead in a come-from-behind three...
...Harvard could help support a program for each subject area so that, for example, math concentrators could have the opportunity to try teaching math once a week if they wished.” In supporting this sort of training, Harvardians could tailor their teaching to whatever they happen to excel (or be interested) in. The university also needs to build more bridges with local public schools. As a major player in Cambridge politics and in the community, Harvard should increase its support for the surrounding schools both financially and administratively. It would increase not only our standing in the community...