{"id":491,"date":"2012-02-01T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=491"},"modified":"2018-02-01T00:40:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:40:42","slug":"steering-girls-to-science-and-tech-careers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/02\/01\/steering-girls-to-science-and-tech-careers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Steering Girls to Science and Tech Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KQED Mind\/Shift Blog
\nJanuary 6, 2012
\nWritten by Tina Barseghian<\/a><\/p>\n

For Ebony Green, a career as a scientist might have seemed unlikely just last year.
\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 drop out<\/a>.
\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.
\nLast fall, without her mother knowing, Ebony enrolled herself in Techbridge<\/a>, an after-school science and math program geared specifically to girls. She signed up for math tutoring at school because she\u2019s struggling in the subject. And her science teacher, Ken Eastman, says she even came to his science class twice a day for a while.<\/p>\n

Read more about Ebony and Techridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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