{"id":269,"date":"2012-01-06T14:54:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T22:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=269"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:54:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T22:54:36","slug":"steering-girls-to-science-and-tech-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/01\/06\/steering-girls-to-science-and-tech-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Steering Girls To Science and Tech Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MindShift Blog<br \/>\nJanuary 6, 2012<br \/>\nWritten By Tina Barseghian<\/p>\n<figure  id=\"attachment_270\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/01\/Ebony-300x190.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-270\" title=\"Ebony-300x190\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/01\/Ebony-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/01\/Ebony-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/01\/Ebony-300x190-160x101.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/01\/Ebony-300x190-240x152.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thirteen-year-old Ebony Green has hopes for a career in science.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For Ebony Green, a career as a scientist might have seemed unlikely just last year.<br \/>\nThe stereotypical outcome for girls like Ebony, an eighth-grader at Frick Middle School in a rough part of East Oakland, isn\u2019t necessarily a high-paying job in science, math, engineering or technology. In fact, 40 percent of Oakland Unified School District students <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2010-12-08\/news\/25182692_1_dropout-rate-hispanic-students-graduation\">drop out<\/a>.<br \/>\nStill, despite her surroundings and the legacy of her race, gender, family background, and income bracket, Ebony sees a different future for herself. She wants to be a pediatrician, or maybe a vet, and she\u2019s starting to take steps to get there. To read the rest of this compelling article go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/mindshift.kqed.org\/2012\/01\/steering-girls-to-science-and-tech-careers\/#more-17916\">MindShift<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/topic\/american-graduate\/\">PBS American Graduate Program<\/a>, I produced a segment for the PBS NewsHour on Ebony Green and Techbridge with correspondent Spencer Michels. Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/education\/july-dec11\/amgraduate_12_29.html\">the segment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MindShift Blog January 6, 2012 Written By Tina Barseghian For Ebony Green, a career as a scientist might have seemed unlikely just last year. The stereotypical outcome for girls like Ebony, an eighth-grader at Frick Middle School in a rough part of East Oakland, isn\u2019t necessarily a high-paying job in science, math, engineering or technology. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/01\/06\/steering-girls-to-science-and-tech-careers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steering Girls To Science and Tech Careers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,4,5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_research_national_ag","category-kqed_research_ag","category-kqed_townhall_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}