Includes updates and/or revisions. Two years ago, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign turned conventional wisdom on its head with a study suggesting that, once ...

An article in Friday's Chronicle written by a Jill Tucker makes the following assertions: "A new study ... shows what the five female university researchers already knew: Girls are just as good as ...

Brain scans of kids under 10 years old show no gender difference in how they perform math equations. Previous studies looked at standardized tests, which don’t differentiate between learned and innate ...

In 1992, Teen Talk Barbie was released with the controversial voice fragment, "Math class is hard." While the toy's release met with public backlash, this underlying assumption persists, propagating ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. In 1992, a time which for many of us seems not that long ago, ...

This study was designed to examine the extent to which experience with and attitudes toward mathematics differ for males and females. The study was also concerned about the association between math ...

Using data from the "High School and Beyond" study, this paper reexamines the reason men and women differ in mathematics achievement by means of a covariance-structures causal model of mathematics ...

There are no gender differences in math ability, according to a study that examined the brain development of young boys and girls. There are no gender differences in math ability, according to a study ...

In response to your coverage of the Clark County School District math test failures: It is much harder to teach high school math to students of moderate aptitude than it is to teach any other subject.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of learning, work and human development. I visited 20 high schools in the last 20 days. In every case, I ...