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Kari Roberts; Roxanne Hughes – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2019
Informal STEM education programs have become venues wherein girls can improve their sense of belonging and potential success (STEM identity) through interactions with role models and seeing how STEM fields are relevant to them. Despite decades of advocacy for single-sex programs' role in improving girls' STEM identity, few studies have found…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Womens Education, Self Concept
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Hughes, Roxanne M.; Nzekwe, Brandon; Molyneaux, Kristen J. – Research in Science Education, 2013
Currently, there are policy debates regarding the efficacy and legality of single sex formal and informal education programs. This issue is particularly poignant in science education due to the historical marginalization of women in these fields. This marginalization has resulted in women being positioned as a stigmatized group within many…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Single Sex Classes, Science Education, Womens Education
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Sprague, Marsha M. – Clearing House, 2003
Addresses the "terribly traumatic" experience of many girls in their passage through adolescence. Examines the response of schools to this reported cultural crisis by reviewing the literature on successful programs for adolescent girls since 1994 and by reporting the results of a survey of 20 middle schools in the Tidewater Virginia area. (SG)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Feminism, Leadership
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Gilgoff, Jon – Afterschool Matters, 2007
Jon Gilgoff is the Boys Services Manager of the Youth Justice Institute in Oakland, California, and a former Robert Bowne Foundation Fellow who researched Boyz 2 Men through his work with the Educational Alliance in New York City. Boyz 2 Men aimed to provide a positive alternative to drugs as a means of coping with the multiple challenges young…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Youth Programs, Males, Empowerment