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• Not Enough Grad;
• [[Strikethrough]] Others [[/Strikethrough]] In Fact, Not Enuf
Basic Background

11%/20%
College Pres....
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Sally Ride Science 

The Problem...
• Not enough college students pursuing science or engineering
• (and numbers of women still lagging behind men)
• Not enough high school students expressing interest in science

• The problem starts before high school.

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TEO
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Sally Ride Science 

The Good News
• In Elementary School, kids (boys and girls) like science
• NCES:
 - 68% of 4th grade boys
 - 66% of 4th grade girls
 Self-report that they "like" science
• That's fully 2/3 of 4th grade students
• It's as many girls as boys