Kevin Hassett's Boys Left Behind

In “The Daily Grind: Lessons in the Hidden Curriculum”, Peggy Orenstein gives an observation of an eighth graders day in math class at middle school. Orenstein in this selection is trying to give the reader a view of how there is a gender gap between girls and boys and how control of power is different between male and female. In the beginning Orenstein states that Mrs. Ritcher the math teacher, “is a ruddy athletic woman with a powerful voice.”(97) While class is in session, Orenstein observes the teacher showing more attention towards the boys then the girls. The author observes that: “Allison, a tall, angular girl who once told me, “My goal is to be the best wife and mother I can be,” raises her hand to ask a question. Mrs. Ritcher, finishing

Dorment convinces the audience with statistics and his own personal stories for example, he says, ’60 percent of the bachelors degrees in this country go to women.’ (Dorment 698) He is not saying that women are smarter but in today’s world we usually think of doctors as men and nurses as women. Dorment also says, “unmarried childless women under thirty earn 8 percent more than males.’ (Dorment 698) I believe that this is true women are believed to be weaker ones and tend to rely on men and that there are more jobs out there for men. Women are just supposed to stay at home and do the cleaning and take care of the kids. Society is forcing this on little girls growing up and it needs to stop. Dorment says, ‘institutional sexism and pay discrimination are still ugly realities.’ Why? Why do women make less, why are they forced to be stay at home housekeepers? Society we need to get a grip on making men and women equal instead of putting gender roles on everything, or we will destroy the upcoming generations.

Evidence suggests that girls are more likely to spend their leisure time in ways which compliment their education and contribute to educational achievements. Mitsos and Browne place considerable emphasis on reading. Women are more likely to read than men, and mothers are more likely than fathers to read to their children. Therefore girls are more likely to have same-sex role models to encourage them to read. Poor language and literacy skills are likely to affect boys' performance across a wide range of subjects.

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)?

Society’s understanding of gender roles debate about gender equity and have always been connected to the social roles that men and women we assigned to shape Americans views of education for girls and boys. What has also been affected is race and social class between females and males who attend schools. Ideas of what women and men are suppose to be and do have cut across different classifications. Ending unfairness in schools has rested on change to gender roles mainly women.

As I read the article on Boys’ anti-school culture, I learned that boys perform worse in school. Boys may try to incorporate their social status as risk-takers. I also learned that there are some stereotypes among boys and girls. It doesn’t matter where you live, it starts early in age. Preteen kids tend to believe that males and females should think a certain way. To understand the meaning of stereotype, it is any thought about specific types of individuals or certain ways of behaving which represents the entire group as a whole. Studies were made about how stereotype inspect what people think of others, rather than the reasons and methods involved in stereotyping. Just as (Griffin, 2000), stated that debates on boys and their schooling are

Case studies is the main theme for Michael's argument as he did use multiple studies to prove a point or show percentages of ratios about men and women in education . Throughout this article, emotional struggles and feeling of discrimination for boys was shown many times, this gives Michael great support for his views on the war against boys. In the article, feminism was thought to be the cause of boys not being successful. Feminist had ideas and had goals to help future generations of

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:

Lately this “boy code” increases a problem of the gender gap between boys and girls in terms of academic, social, and work performance.

After thoroughly reading the first factor, ‘Changes at School,’ I completely agree with the author Leonard Sax for the reasons boys are showing a lack of motivation in school. An example he states which I was able to connect with is the lack of real-world experiences in our curriculums. I completely agree with this point and can relate as I know all about the mechanics of a telescope and how it works, however, if I were given a one I would have difficulties using it. Moreover, I do believe that boys are in trouble as women continue to create greater gender gap. This is evident in the statistics as 64.8 percentages of women between the ages of 24 and 35 have post-secondary degrees and this number has consistently increased over the years. Whereas, 63.4 percent

Gender equality in schools has been a controversial issue over the years. In these two articles, "The Daily Grind: Lessons in the Hidden Curriculum" of Peggy Orenstein, and "Boys Here, Girls There: Sure, if Equality's the Goal" of Karen Stabiner, both writers give an in-depth reality into the contentious issues that exist between boys and girls. Although they bear some superficial similarities in discussing gender parity problem in education, the differences between Orenstein and Stabiner are the target audience, the rhetorical choices, and their opinion on the gender equality issue.

In the essay “How the Schools Shortchange Boys”, author Gerry Garibaldi addresses the concern of boys’ behaviors in school. Garibaldi first starts out by stating the feminist complaints that girls were “losing their voice” in a male-oriented classroom have precipitated the school’s establishment to be more in their favor. This has led to boys becoming increasingly disconnected inside the classrooms. Garibaldi claims that “only 65 percent earned high school diplomas in the class of 2003, compared with 72 percent of girls.” He continues by mentioning about how girls are outnumbering boys on most university campuses in the country.

Another idea I gathered from this article was we shouldn’t be so concerned that boys aren’t doing as well as boys because who are we to judge yes their test scores aren’t as good but that’s no reason to judge. Especially when some males are very intelligent and make more money than women do. I think we are all equal and everyone has the potential to be just as smart as the next one. I don’t think it’s right to say that boys aren’t where they should be I think people just want to have something to make people worry about. The authors conclusions are clearly presented because she tells was we can fix school boys being in a crisis. So that clearly shows that she believes they are in fact in a

In today’s society, education has become a very important factor in a student 's life. Everyone tries to do and implement whatever is best for the student to learn and become successful. Therefore, as a result, society tries to separate schools based on gender. Schools should be separated by gender for many reasons. The first reason is that gender separation will help eliminate bullying. It has been demonstrated that boys, in general, tend to be more rude and violent than girls causing the boys to “bully” girls. Another reason they should be separated is to help break down stereotypes. An example of this is that girls are free of the pressure to compete with boys in male dominated subjects such as math and science. Another reason they should be separated is that it makes it easier on the teacher to use different learning techniques that are geared toward specific genders. It is a great idea to separate students by gender at schools if they want the students to have a better education. This will help prevent bullying at schools, help breakdown stereotypes, and encourage teachers to use different educational techniques.

For instance, Saul Kaplan, founder of the Business Innovation Factory, extends Sandberg’s viewpoint that women can have it all by enrollment of men in college which is decreasing rapidly. In his article: “The Plight of Young Males”, Kaplan shares his resentment of the slowed regression of women in executive positions. However, the tables are turning more rapidly than one assumes. Similarly, to Sandberg’s statement on gender gap in academic achievement, Kaplan contends, “In fact, in each year since 1982, more American women than men have received bachelor’s degrees [sic] Over the last decade two million more women graduated from college than men. And the gap continues to grow” (733). Kaplan furthermore reinforces Sandberg’s illustration on the gender gap in education by inserting that “if today’s trends continue unaltered, the last young man in the U.S. to get a college degree will do so in 2068” (733). Kaplan illustrates this further by presenting low graduation rates of African American, Latino American and Native American men in college (734). By the illustration previously mentioned on the low enrollment of males in college creates the pathway for women to have it all while men may be taking on the traditional role of taking care of the family while women pursue a career. Kaplan takes the attention off women having it all and illustrates problems relating to men (734). Kaplan’s merely suggesting men are paving the way for women to have it all by the ever decreasing college enrollments of men which, in advertently, is leading men to lower paying positions in the workplace. Kaplan agrees with Sandberg’s work when she quotes “This gender gap in academic achievement has even caused some to worry about the “end of men” by suggesting that we need to focus on both men and women (646). Therefore, there will be an equal balance of men and women in professional careers while together