Girls and boys will perform similarly in earlier education settings, but once entering college, girls are less likely to choose a STEM field as their area of specialization.

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"We will also be rolling this programme out to non-mainstream education settings in order to do more to tackle those most at risk, " said the spokesman.

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Another obstacle: the difficulty of implementing programs, especially in impoverished settings with tattered health-care systems, poor education and other challenges.

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The education for children with disabilities for the most part continues to take place in separate educational settings.

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They criticize some studies purporting large effect sizes in that the treatment fidelity is highly unlikely to be achieved in real world settings or the students sampled are not typical of students currently receiving special education.

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"We need a joined up system for our young people, and rather than them seeing a number of specialists in a variety of settings, we need to explore alternative approaches which bring together the focus of care, education, and health services around the child and the family, " he said.

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