Higher Ed: KUT's Jennifer Stayton And Dr. Ed Burger On Girls, Math And Getting Past Bias

A summer op-ed in the New York Times (no, not that op-ed!) was headlined "Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She'll Thank You Later." The author, an engineering professor, believes girls would benefit from more drilling on math to "break the cycle of dislike-avoidance-further dislike" and help them build confidence in their math skills (which research has shown are pretty similar to boys' math skills). In this episode of KUT's podcast "Higher Ed," Southwestern University President Dr. Ed Burger and KUT's Jennifer Stayton respond to the op-ed's call for gender-based additional academic practice and discuss how to undo lingering biases about gender and academic performance.