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Title: FAILING AT FAIRNESS: HOW AMERICA'S SCHOOLS CHEAT GIRLS by Myra Sadker, David Sadker ISBN: 0-684-80073-X Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: What the Numbers Say
Comment: Failing at Fairness is an interesting blend of history, classroom research and observation, in depth analysis of standardized testing results, interviews and theory as they relate to the schooling of girls and women in the United States. The Sadkers show us how far women have come in the last century, in claiming their place in the classrooms of schools from elementary to graduate school both in front of the class, and behind the desk. They also show us how different that place is from the space filled by our male counterparts, and how sexism has seeped into every aspect of the female educational experience.
The Sadkers studied the numbers ---counting everything from female faces and names in textbooks and among teachers/professors, to school budgets for athletics, to questions and kudos offered to girls by teachers in the classroom. These numbers show that girls attend schools where the bulk of a teacher's attention in the classroom is focused on boys, their studies are centered on men and their achievements, they are taught by men (secondary education and beyond) and the bulk of their schools' budgets (including special ed and athletics) are spent on the boys. It is no wonder that the hopes and dreams of young girls are diminished as they enter adolescence, with doctors settling for nursing degrees, and chemists turning to cooking!
Fortunately, the Sadkers also point to the advances made under Title IX, the refocusing on gender equity by educators, parents, students and politicians in the 1990's after the backlash years under Reagan and Bush, and the media attention garnered by the AAUW's report in 1992 How Schools Shortchange Girls. Sexism is so endemic in our culture, however, that it will take generations of strong women and men to realize true change.
Chapter Nine, Different Voices, Different Schools particularly intrigued me. In it, the Sadkers identified the advantages and disadvantages of single-sex education for boys and girls. As the product of a parochial girls' high school, I was not surprised by the results of the research by Valerie Lee and her colleagues Helen Marks and Tina Byrd of the University of Michigan. They found that in intellectually rigorous girls' schools, few incidents of sexism were uncovered. These schools focused on the intellectual growth, academic curiosity, independence and self-esteem of their female students. With such positive research and new experiments in single-sex public education like the new Young Women's Leadership Charter School in Chicago, we may soon see this option available to girls across the United States.
Rating: 5
Summary: required reading for parents of girls
Comment: "Failing at Fairness" is a landmark book in the education of girls. Researchers Myra and David Sadker step away from the fuzzy assumptions we have about gender and concentrate on facts and specific behavior.
The book is strongest on presenting the history of educating women, and defining specifically how girls are still getting shortchanged. The authors clearly lay out their analysis of what is wrong with girl's education. The weakness of the book is in the last chapter "The Edge of Change". The solution to any problem requires change, and this change requires a rethink of how we treat half the population. It challenges our habits, our culture, our intellect and our pocketbook. And , unfortunately, the Sadkers are a little light and fuzzy when suggesting solutions. This is forgivable given the scope of the problem.
If you are a parent of a girl, or if you are or want to be a good teacher, I encourage you to read Failing at Fairness.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Book
Comment: This is a great book. It addresses the issue of why girls don't do well in school. It may help you understand why you hated school or why your daughter does now
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Title: How Schools Shortchange Girls: The Aauw Report: A Study of Major Findings on Girls and Education by American Association of University Women, Aauw ISBN: 1569248214 Publisher: Marlowe & Company Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Schoolgirls : Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein ISBN: 0385425767 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Possible Lives by Mike Rose ISBN: 0140236171 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 23 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher's Story by Vivian Gussin Paley ISBN: 0674505867 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
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Title: Political Agendas for Education: From the Religious Right to the Green Party (Volume in the Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in education) by Joel H. Spring ISBN: 0805839852 Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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