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Direct linkHua, Vanessa – Teaching Tolerance, 2011
Last year, when students at Ridgecrest Intermediate School in Palos Verdes, California, were asked to name scientists, their answers--Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Bill Nye the Science Guy--reflected a common perception. Most of the leading scientists they came up with were white, male, or dead. Although women and people of…
Descriptors: Scientists, STEM Education, Women Scientists, Disproportionate Representation
