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Attracting Youth to Engineering
Portland Academy for Young Women Will Teach New Curricula as Part of Project Lead the Way

POSTED: 04:00 AM PDT Friday, October 3, 2008
BY SAM BENNETT

A year ago, Cal Jackson was content with teaching geometry and advanced algebra to Lincoln High School students.

But when he saw an opportunity to teach engineering at the Harriet Tubman Leadership Academy for Young Women in Portland, Jackson couldn’t pass it up....

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U.S. Surgeon General Rides in Portland

The U.S. Surgeon General (Steven Galson), was in Portland today to award the BTA for a bike safety education program at Harriet Tubman Young Women's Academy in North Portland. After the ceremony he joined the girls of the academy for a bike ride.

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Tubman Academy runs on girl power
Diverse single-sex academy puts students on college track

By Jennifer Anderson
The Portland Tribune, Nov 23, 2007

In Kathy Smith’s P.E. and wellness class at this North Portland school, girls can shoot hoops, step to the popular “Dance Dance Revolution” game, and hear a lesson on sexual harassment without feeling embarrassed.

There are no boys to be found in the gym, or anywhere else in the building at the new Harriet Tubman Leadership Academy for Young Women, one of the two single-sex academies to open as part of Jefferson High School’s ongoing reforms this year.

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