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 |
Different Voices Different Schools | 226 |
The Edge of Change | 251 |
Notes | 281 |
Recommended Reading | 327 |
Index | 337 |
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Page 80 - I promote the old proverb, give me a fish, and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish, and I eat for a lifetime.
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 127 - We can only retell and live by the stories we have read, or chanted, or experienced electronically, or come to us, like the murmurings of our mothers, telling us what conventions demand. Whatever their form or...
Page 286 - Feminists on Children's Literature. "A Feminist Look at Children's Books," School Library Journal 17:5 (January 1971), pp.
Page 226 - Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve — a story which shows, among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble. In the life cycle, as in the Garden of Eden, the woman has been the deviant.
Page 21 - I sometimes fear we shall have no more women in America. If the women's rights sect triumphs, women will try to do the work of men— they will cease to be women while they will fail to become men— they will be something mongrel, hermaphroditic. The men too will lose as the women advance: we shall have a community of defeminated women, and demasculated men. When we attempt to disturb God's order we produce monstrosities.
Page 24 - Ah, were I something great ! I wish I were Some mighty poetess, I would shame you then, That love to keep us children ! OI wish That I were some great princess, I would build Far off from men a college like a man's, And I would teach them all that men are taught; We are twice as quick !' And here she shook aside The hand that play'd the patron with her curls.
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.