How often do people truly fall in love? A nationwide study shows passionate love may happen only a few times across a lifetime.

New research is proving persistent gender gaps in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers can't be ...

The study suggests that children actively use gender stereotypes to guide how they learn. Young children trust math advice from men, even when it is wrong. A new study from Rutgers University–New ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

EdSource · Sexual abuse claims threaten school district budgets, even when not accused Five years after the Covid pandemic closed schools and pushed students into a year of distance learning, ...

For educators determined to narrow the gender gap in math and science, 2019 was a banner year. Across the country, programs specifically designed to give girls exposure to STEM — science, technology, ...

DESTREHAN, La. — During a recent group project in her eighth-grade engineering class, Charlotte Buccola took charge. Standing between the two boys on her team, she silently arranged sticky notes on a ...

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

The pandemic erased years of progress in erasing the performance difference between boys and girls nationally — and in Hawaiʻi. At ʻIlima Intermediate, teacher Sarah Milianta-Laffin sees a stark ...