According to a National Science Foundation (NSF) study, female K-12 students perform about the same as male K-12 students on standardized science and mathematics tests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest gaps in performance appear when they looked at the racial and socioeconomic standings on the test takers. In other words: “larger gaps exist between students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds or family income<\/strong>, with white and Asian\/Pacific Islander students and those from higher income families scoring higher than their counterparts who are black, Hispanic, or American Indian\/Alaska Native or who are from lower income families.” [National Girls Collaborative Project<\/a>] <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NSF study says that K-12 students who come from a poor background and\/or whose parents were less educated were not likely to take the classes that help them do better on these tests. This sets these students up for not being ready for a STEM career, in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The biggest gaps in K-12 testing performance is based on race and income<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage","tag-girls-in-stem","tag-k-12-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}