Elaine Macardle's The Lost Boys

Michelle Conlin is a writer for Business Week meanwhile Elaine McArdle is a correspondent for the Boston Globe. In the articles “The New Gender Gap” by Conlin and “The Lost Boys” by McArdle they write about the declining male success rate in the educational institutions and the implications for society. According to McArdle and Conlin, an effort has to be made to help the male population adjust with the female gender population in terms of educational success. Historically males have been the primary beneficiaries of education.

There are multiple reasons why Kelley King, Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens are on the pro side. For one reason, they believe that the differences exist due to boys being more interactive with certain topics and methods that don’t usually interest girls or vice versa. For example, the Wamsley Elementary School in Rifle, Colorado has both boy and girl students. However, in the past, the girl students over accomplished the boy students due to the school staff being more experienced in understanding how to teach girls than understanding how to teach boys. So, the school focused on teaching the boys with their own learning styles that are also girl friendly such as online courses. The result of this was successful as boys became more accomplished than they were from before. (Pages 147 – 148).

This shows the reader the difficulty of the topic from the very start. This suggests that the educational system will always be more favorable to a certain group within our society because of societal expectations. It is also clear that because of the engrained stereotypes such as “girls are all hardworking” (Forde, p.5) and “boys are inevitably troublesome” (Forde, p.5) complicates the task of creating a gender-equal curriculum and environment. This is why it is important to realize that gender in education cannot only be evaluated as an individual variable, other factors (such as disability, poverty, religion…) come into play and can affect one’s education and identity. The first part of the book gives us background knowledge on this issue.

“Not only do women enter college at higher rates than men, but they’re less likely to drop out once they get there, female graduates now account for about 60% of U.S. Bachelor 's Degree holders” (Fisher ). The being the case, the rates show that women are entering college at higher rate but accounting for over half of U.S. Bachelor 's degrees. In her next quote she goes below the surface line to explain how societal standards might have a reason for the gender gap in college.”Boys involved in extracurricular

The programs that seperate the sexses in schools are usually based on very questionable science about the differences of girls’ and boys’ brains during development and learning, along with gender stereotypes. The American Civil Liberties Union’s article, ‘Sex-Segregated schools; Separate and Unequal’ says,” Advocates tell teachers that: Boys need a competitive and confrontational learning environment,

It is no secret that, in general, boys and girls differ in their learning styles. Capitalizing on these differences could advance classroom performance. With on-going concerns about student success in school, any changes in the classroom that could increase student achievement should be considered. Recognizing the learning differences between boys and girls, one of the changes that could be instituted is single-gender classrooms.

Women worked tirelessly to challenge misogyny in education. The formation of ‘women's studies’ introduced women to disciplines like language, philosophy, psychology, and history and opened doors for female STEM majors (Encyclopedia). Women campaigned for educational reforms throughout education careers, and demanded changes in curricula and teaching forces to ensure that women were getting the same education as men. Some changes include home economics and survival courses not being gendered courses and the same curriculum for physical education classes. These changes in the education system made sexism in the new generations less common, a significant change from the previous generation.

Not too long ago, men were considered superior and were in charge of controlling the world because their role in society allowed them to be the dominant gender. Now that women have more privileges, gender roles are altering and women are starting to outshine the men. Studies have established that there are more women receiving higher education by attending universities and colleges than men. The articles The Lost Boys by Elaine McArdle and The New Gender Gap by Michele Conlin focus on how originally men had the advantage of education until recently when women students started to outnumber and outperform the men. McArdle and Conlin are writing about how men are becoming the secondary gender while women have the upper hand. The message that these

In the essay "The Plight of Young Males" written by Saul Kaplan, the author has discussed that while the male gender’s evolution has come to a near standstill, there has been significant development on the female side of education in recent years. I agree with the author in every point that he has discussed in his article. Kaplan has mentioned in his article that the male’s future is not very bright, as with the contemporary type of schooling system, it has been made for admission not for success, which is not the best for students.

Among education in today’s world, statistics shows number of males and females in colleges and universities have widen. In my research, 57% of undergraduate degrees were awarded to women, only 43% to men. I found in my research that there are many factors that contribute to these stats. Men tend to get good jobs straight out of high school or during college. There are debatably more high paying jobs for a male high school graduate than a female, even though most of these jobs are mainly either hazardous, manufacturing based, physically demanding, or all the above. The gender techniques of how genders are taught in kindergarten through 12th grades. Research show that movement, particular in young boys in the motor stage of development,

As discussed in a recent essay by Saul Kaplan “The Plight of Young Males”, there is a serious academic gender achievement gap in the United States and as I will discuss, around the world. Young women are doing significantly better than young men, and the results are shocking. In the latest census, males make up 51 percent of the total U.S. population between the ages of 18-24. Yet only 40 percent of today’s college students are men. Since 1982, more American women than men have received bachelor’s degrees. In the last ten years, two million more women graduated from college than men. As Kaplan reveals, the average eleventh-grade boy writes at the level of the average eighth-grade girl. He also states that women dominate high school honor rolls and now make up more than 70 percent of class valedictorians. Kaplan says, “I am happy to see women succeeding. But can we really afford for our country’s young men to fall so far behind,” (733)?

Should children be segregated from each other in schools based on their gender? Many teachers and students alike will argue no. Separating boys and girls in the classroom, setting applies that boys are superior than girls and girls are inferior than boys. After thorough research it was discovered that male children were not much different than there female counterparts after all. Men are no longer the only ones to choose a higher education or work outside of the home, numberless women chose to do so as well. As a result, this teaches sexism instead of promoting that one gender is equal to the next.

When you send your children off in the morning to go to school, no matter what grade they are in whither it be elementary, junior high, or senior high, you expect that they will receive the best education that they can get. They should be asked challenging questions, encouraged and called upon to participate in class, they should also be given as much help as they need to secede by the teacher. However, this is most commonly not the case. Parents and the children themselves are unaware of what is going on because gender bias is not a noisy problem. Most people are unaware of the secret sexist lessons that occur every day in classrooms across the country. In this essay I will use two essay's from the reader:

Gender differences occur in many aspects of a person’s life whether it is culture, politics, occupation, family and relationships, or the economy (just to name a few). One major difference in gender occurs in learning and education in the elementary and secondary levels. Research has found that males and females learn differently in many aspects of education. First of all, female and male brains are constructed differently affecting the way they learn; this leads to basic differences in learning and also gives an introduction into why the way one learns differs according to gender and how males and females learn subjects and tasks differently. Second, males and females are treated differently, sometimes unconsciously, in educational

Gender equity in terms of education is about the socialization of men and women and the results of this process on the life outcomes of the two genders (Husen & Postlethwaite, 1994). In the United States, the education system is required to treat males and females equally. There has been much research done to compare the genders in all areas. In the past, research has found that women fall far behind men in many areas such as math, and science, but men lag behind women in certain areas as well. Over the years, many provisions have been made with the goal of equalizing the treatment of girls and boys in public education. These improvements are proven successful as women, as well as men, are advancing in areas where they tend to lag