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How schools discourage some girls from pursuing STEM.

March 21, 2014/

Schools continue to "code and treat": African-American girls as hyperagressive and hypersexualized; Latina girls as destined for nothing more than teen pregnancy; and Native American girls as more likely to become alcoholics than anything else. These beliefs help maintain the digital divide.

By Kimberly Scott

Full Story: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/03/compugirls_how_schools_keep_some_girls_from_pursuing_stem.html

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