{"125681":{"#nid":"125681","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Fox on STEM Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We need to wash out the \u0027weed-them-out orientation\u0027 in the classroom,\u0022 says\u003Cstrong\u003E Mary Frank Fox\u003C\/strong\u003E, [ADVANCE professor in the School of Public Policy and]\u0026nbsp;co-director at the Center for Study of Women, Science and Technology at Georgia Tech. \u0022That is not a hospitable climate for students, we have to teach students to move along rather than have them sink or swim.\u0022\u0026nbsp;Fox participated in a panel on STEM education last week at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/stories\/news\/education\/duquesne-among-those-retaining-women-minorities-in-stem-632645\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003C\/a\u003E - April 23, 2012 (Also in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/stem-education\/2012\/04\/19\/experts-weed-out-classes-are-killing-stem-achievement\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/a\u003E, April 19, 2012)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2012-04-23 10:58:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:35","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"peptides","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/stories\/news\/education\/duquesne-among-those-retaining-women-minorities-in-stem-632645\/","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3976","name":"mary frank fox"},{"id":"626","name":"public policy"},{"id":"167487","name":"STEM education"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}