Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat GirlsFailing at Fairness, the result of two decades of research, shows how gender bias makes it impossible for girls to receive an education equal to that given to boys.
Hard-hitting and eye-opening, Failing at Fairness should be read by every parent, especially those with daughters. |
Contents
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Missing in Interaction | 42 |
The SelfEsteem Slide | 77 |
In Search of Herself | 99 |
Test Dive | 136 |
Colder by Degrees | 161 |
The Miseducation of Boys | 197 |
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Page xvi - Sitting in the same classroom, reading the same textbook, listening to the same teacher, boys and girls receive very different educations. From grade school through graduate school female students are more likely to be invisible members of classrooms. Teachers interact with males more frequently, ask them better questions, and give them more precise and helpful feedback. Over the course of years the uneven distribution of teacher time, energy, attention, and talent, with boys getting the lion's share,...
Page 4 - Zajac asked you for your penmanship, which, by the way, looks like who did it and ran. Felipe, the reason you have hiccups is, your mouth is always open and the wind rushes in. You're in fifth grade now. So, Felipe, put a lock on it. Zip it up. Then go get a drink of water. Mrs. Zajac means business, Robert. The sooner you realize she never said everybody in the room has to do the work except for Robert, the sooner you'll get along with her. And . . . Clarence. Mrs. Zajac knows you didn't try. You...
Page 13 - Most of America's poor live in households that are headed by women. If the cure for cancer is forming in the mind of one of our daughters, it is less likely to become a reality than if it is forming in the mind of one of our sons.