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Is There a Crisis in Education of Males?

insidehighered.com
May 21, 2008
        

Statistics come out every year showing that greater proportions of college students are women. A report issued Tuesday by the American Association of University Women refers to a “so called” crisis and argues that there is no such thing with regard to male students as a whole. To the extent that...

                   

AAUW: ‘Boy crisis’ is a myth

joannejacobs.com
May 20, 2008
        

The “boy crisis” in schools is a myth, concludes a study by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), which argued in the ’90s that girls needed more attention. Grades and test scores for boys have remained the same or improved, the AAUW says, even if girls have made larger gains. The...

                   

All the freaking out about the "boy crisis ... [School Daze]

gawker.com
May 20, 2008
        

All the freaking out about the "boy crisis " in public schools, i.e. the notion that boys are under-performing academically, is apparently over nothing: a new study reports that "both sexes have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

                   
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Surprise--The AAUW Finds that More Girls than Boys in College is No Crisis

reason.com
May 20, 2008
        

Crying "crisis" every time some social scientist notices some differences between groups is very popular nowadays. The implication is that equality should be the status quo and that differences must be the result of malign forces. (Admittedly, sometimes there are malign forces, e.g., Jim Crow...

Academic gains by girls not at the expense of gains by boys, U.S. report asserts

iht.com
May 20, 2008
        

The American Association of University Women, whose 1992 report on how girls are shortchanged in the classroom caused a debate over gender equity, has turned its attention to debunking the idea of a "boys' crisis." "Girls' gains have not come at boys' expense," says a new report by the group,...

                   

Not a Zero Sum Game

shakespearessister.blogspot.com
May 20, 2008
        

Shapeling and Shaker Sweet Machine forwarded me this article from The Times—helpfully filed in the "Education" section, despite having "girls" in the title—about a new report from the American Association of University Women which has found that girls' gains in the classroom have not come at...

                   

Boys' crisis? What boys' crisis?

salon.com
May 20, 2008
        

There are a couple of questions in life that seem like they'll never be fully resolved. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Which is better, Coke or Pepsi? Which group is having the bigger educational "crisis," boys or girls? As many of you are probably aware, back in 1992 the American...

                   

About That Education Crisis

tnr.com
May 20, 2008
        

This email just in from a reader:I just saw your Plank post on the new AAUW study; since you had questions about its objectivity (which is fair, given the documented problems with their 1992 "how schools shortchange girls" report), I wanted to direct you to a report I wrote for Education Sector,...

                   

Study: No crisis for boys in education

salon.com
May 20, 2008
        

Interesting: A new study to be released today on gender equity in education concludes that a "boys crisis" in U.S. schools is a myth and that both sexes have stayed the same or improved on standardized tests in the past decade. The report by the nonprofit American Association of University Women,...

The Myth of the Boy Crisis

matthewyglesias.com
May 20, 2008
        

The Washington Post writes up some new research indicating that the much-fretted-over "boy crisis" in education doesn't actually exist -- "both sexes have stayed the same or improved on standardized tests in the past decade" and family socioeconomic factors are a much larger demographic...

               

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