{"id":2171,"date":"2017-02-27T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:34","slug":"encouraging-todays-hidden-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/27\/encouraging-todays-hidden-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging today’s “Hidden Figures”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The film\u00a0Hidden Figures<\/em> has taken not only the box office by storm, but the education world as well. Studies show that female and male students actually perform equally well in mathematics and science on standardized tests, but larger gaps exist between students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds or family income. Research by U-M professor emerita\u00a0Jacquelynne S. Eccles\u00a0<\/strong>points out that \u201cduring middle childhood, children develop a sense of self-esteem and individuality, comparing themselves with their peers.\u201d By increasing awareness of past gender and racial inequity, the movie\u00a0has sparked interest in addressing the inequities that are still present today<\/a>. Organizations such as the National Girls Collaborative (NGC) implements a tested, comprehensive program of change that uses collaboration to expand and strengthen STEM-related opportunities for girls and women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The film\u00a0Hidden Figures has taken not only the box office by storm, but the education world as well. Studies show that female and male students actually perform equally well in mathematics and science on standardized tests, but larger gaps exist between students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds or family income. Research by U-M professor emerita\u00a0Jacquelynne S. Eccles\u00a0points\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[217,45,188],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-people"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015.jpg",500,349,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015-150x105.jpg",150,105,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015-300x209.jpg",300,209,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015.jpg",500,349,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015.jpg",500,349,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015.jpg",500,349,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015.jpg",500,349,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015-500x300.jpg",500,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015.jpg",500,349,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Depositphotos_14856621_s-2015.jpg",358,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The film\u00a0Hidden Figures has taken not only the box office by storm, but the education world as well. Studies show that female and male students actually perform equally well in mathematics and science on standardized tests, but larger gaps exist between students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds or family income. Research by U-M professor…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}