"Girls get own class in computer science".--The News & Observer, August 18, 2005 Starting this October October: see month. , the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) is a two-year, public residential high school located in Durham, North Carolina, which focuses on the intensive study of science, mathematics and technology. will offer a computer science class for girls only in the hope of attracting more female students to the classes. Girls report that they often do not enroll in such courses because they are intimidated in·tim·i·date tr.v. in·tim·i·dat·ed, in·tim·i·dat·ing, in·tim·i·dates 1. To make timid; fill with fear. 2. To coerce or inhibit by or as if by threats. by the boys who may have more knowledge and experience with computers. Gerald Boarman, the school's president, told The News & Observer that he is not an advocate of single-sex courses, so he hopes that within a few years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time all-girls class will have helped create a culture at the school that will make such classes unnecessary. www.newsobserver.com |
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