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Girls’ STEM Skills Slipped During COVID. Here’s What to Do
This story was originally published on EdSource. For nearly 20 years, academic strategies, support and policies focused on closing long-standing achievement gaps in STEM between boys and girls. These efforts paid off, and by 2019, girls’ achievement in math and science equaled or exceeded boys’. Then the pandemic hit, and the gaps that took two decades to...
By Megan Kuhfield | July 31, 2025