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. |
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FAILING AT FAIRNESS: How America's Schools Cheat Girls
Reseña de usuario - KirkusA telling investigation by the Sadkers (Education/American University) of why girls metamorphose from intellectually eager first-graders into socially compliant high-school and college students who ... Leer reseña completa
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Reseña de usuario - beau.p.laurence - LibraryThingif you were a "smart girl" who sacrificed being seen as a young woman in order to be seen as smart, or, if you weren't stupid but played the game to get better grades, this book just might bring you to tears. Leer reseña completa
Índice
| 15 | |
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 |
Different Voices Different Schools | 226 |
The Edge of Change | 251 |
Notes | 281 |
Recommended Reading | 327 |
| 337 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls Myra Sadker,David Sadker Vista de fragmentos - 1995 |
Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls Myra Sadker,David Miller Sadker Vista de fragmentos - 1994 |
Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls Myra Sadker,David Sadker Vista de fragmentos - 1995 |
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Página 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,...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Referencias a este libro
Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity Ann Arnett Ferguson Vista previa restringida - 2001 |
Doing History: Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools Linda S. Levstik,Keith C. Barton No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls |
| Autores | Myra Sadker, David Sadker |
| Editor | Simon and Schuster, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1439125236, 9781439125236 |
| N.º de páginas | 368 páginas |
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