An Assessment of School Segregation and Its Impact on STEM Education
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New York
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The focus of this chapter is to understand the intersection of school segregation and African American girls' performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. This chapter will begin with an assessment of school segregation in New York City. The next section of the chapter will assess how school segregation influences the performance of African American female students in STEM education. The final section of this chapter will provide recommendations on how to increase the number of African American girls in STEM education.