Improving high school physics outcomes for young women

Improving outcomes in older women?

A n extensive body of research has reported that women experience worse outcomes compared with men when the full spectrum of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are included (1–4). Compared with men, women are more likely to experience major bleeding (1,2) and vascular access complications (2) post-percutaneous coronary intervention, as well as a higher rate of major adverse cardiovascular events (1...

The Benefit of Additional High School Math and Science Classes for Young Men and Women

This paper examines the effects of taking more high school math and science classes on wages, the likelihood of entering a technical job or a job traditional for one's sex, and the likelihood of choosing a technical college major or a major traditional for one's sex. Results from two data sets show that taking more high school math increases wages and increases the likelihood of entering techni...

Inter-School Collaborations for Improving Educational and Social Outcomes for Children and Young People: A Systematic Review

Lowering Aggression and Improving School Performance among High School Girls by Teaching them Affect Control Strategies

Assuming that aggressive behavior negatively affects all aspects of school performance (i.e. self-efficacy, affects, planning, motivation, and lack of outcome control) it would be logical to conclude that learning strategies to control affects can lead to improvements in school performance. To explore this hypothesis a group of 200 accessible students were given a questionnaire on aggressive be...

Cardiovascular disease in women: implications for improving health outcomes.

OBJECTIVE To collate data on women and cardiovascular disease in Australia and globally to inform public health campaigns and health care interventions. DESIGN Literature review. RESULTS Women with acute coronary syndromes show consistently poorer outcomes than men, independent of comorbidity and management, despite less anatomical obstruction of coronary arteries and relatively preserved l...