125681 external_news 1335178699 1475893535 "We need to wash out the 'weed-them-out orientation' in the classroom," says Mary Frank Fox, [ADVANCE professor in the School of Public Policy and] co-director at the Center for Study of Women, Science and Technology at Georgia Tech. "That is not a hospitable climate for students, we have to teach students to move along rather than have them sink or swim." Fox participated in a panel on STEM education last week at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - April 23, 2012 (Also in U.S. News & World Report, April 19, 2012)

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