Eighth-grade girls are not only as skilled as boys at thinking through problems and using technology to solve them, they may even be a little better, according to a first-of-its-kind assessment of ...

When it comes to technology and engineering literacy, middle school-aged girls appear to perform better than boys. In 2014, a nationally representative sample of approximately 21,500 eighth graders ...

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Eighth-grade girls are not only as skilled as boys at thinking through problems and using technology to solve them, they may even be a little better, a study released Tuesday suggests. The findings ...

A new study shows that eighth-grade girls are better than boys at thinking through problems and using technology to solve them. Overall, it’s a skill that about 43 percent of eighth-graders ...