Todd Benoit: The trouble with educating boys
Bangor Daily News, July 21, 2007
(excerpts) In 2005, Gendron created a task force on gender equity in education as statistics were piling up that showed boys doing worse than girls by most academic and social measures. Boys’ grades are lower, most of their test scores are worse, they are more likely to be suspended or expelled from school and are far more likely to kill themselves. Boys are twice as likely to be diagnosed with learning or emotional disabilities.
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No one wants to go back to shortchanging girls, but teachers have a limited number of minutes of classroom time and a limited number of ways they can connect with students; schools have limited budgets for hiring staff. Given the serious deficit in boys’ progress, the task force members must know if they had emphasized the challenge of helping boys catch up, some of those resources would have been redirected.
(excerpts) In 2005, Gendron created a task force on gender equity in education as statistics were piling up that showed boys doing worse than girls by most academic and social measures. Boys’ grades are lower, most of their test scores are worse, they are more likely to be suspended or expelled from school and are far more likely to kill themselves. Boys are twice as likely to be diagnosed with learning or emotional disabilities.
...
No one wants to go back to shortchanging girls, but teachers have a limited number of minutes of classroom time and a limited number of ways they can connect with students; schools have limited budgets for hiring staff. Given the serious deficit in boys’ progress, the task force members must know if they had emphasized the challenge of helping boys catch up, some of those resources would have been redirected.
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