About a decade ago, leaders at the Kentucky Department of Education set out to develop guidelines for what quality math instruction should looked like in the state, convening educators from the ...

Efforts to close the gender gap in STEM education are gaining momentum after setbacks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the years leading up to the pandemic, the gender gap had nearly closed. But within a few years, girls lost all the ground ...

After years of progress, girls fell back behind boys in many school districts in math after COVID. Nonprofits, schools and ...

In 2023-2024, boys on average outscored girls in math in nearly nine out of 10 districts, an analysis of test scores shows.

Schools like de Zavala MS in Irving are ramping up efforts to close the gender gap in STEM after setbacks during the pandemic ...