Despite all the talk about encouraging girls in math and science, many teachers still harbor unconscious biases that dissuade girls from going into these fields, a new study suggests. Israeli ...

Last Friday, I attended the Math Is Cool competition for seventh- and eighth-graders at Mt. Spokane High School. Once again, I was humbled by the difficulty of the questions and the intelligence of ...

Joseph Cimpian receives funding from the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences and the National Science Foundation. Ian Thacker and Yasemin Copur-Gencturk do not work for, ...

This paper investigates differences between male and female student performance on multiple-choice (MC) versus constructed-response (CR) items used on the large-scale math and reading PISA tests. The ...