Female elementary school teachers can pass on their anxiety and stereotypes about math to female students, and girls who adopt this outlook perform worse at math, research at the University of Chicago ...

Martin's journey to high school wasn't planned; she'd never envisioned herself teaching teenagers. But now, she couldn't ...

Teachers report thinking that if girls do better in math than boys, it is probably because of their innate ability and effort. But they also report that when boys do well in math, it is more likely ...

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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 ...

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, ...