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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This bold and necessary book points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs what Sally Nuamah calls feminist schools, deliberately designed to provide girls with achievement-oriented identities. And she shows why doing so would help all students, regardless of their gender.--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Description
Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. As for young men, it turns out the film Failure to launch is not far from the truth. Fully one-third of men ages 22-34 are still living at home with their parents--about a 100 percent increase in the past twenty years. Boys nationwide are increasingly dropping out of school; fewer are going to...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly news magazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warnings of a "boy crisis" in which male students at all academic levels have begun falling behind their female peers. In this book the author explores and analyzes detailed ethnographic data on this purported gender gap between boys and girls in educational achievement at two low-income high schools, one...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Breaking the STEM Stereotype delves into the reasons behind the persistent gender disparity between men and women in STEM fields. It explores the powerful role of stereotypes and provides parents and educators with tips and resources on how to begin dispelling stereotypes and engaging girls with STEM during the foundational early childhood years"--
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