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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: 1-56924-821-4 Publisher: Marlowe & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Average Customer Rating: 1.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: I Kept Hearing Helen Redy songs in the Background!
Comment: Boys are the ones who are being short changed in schools today. When they are in elementary school the boys are being turned into little girls. They are not being recognized as boys. Boys and girls are different. The female elementary teachers do not understand boys. Why is it that most special education students are boys? Because women teachers don't understand boys. A part of the problem is that it is hard for men to get hired in elementary schools. Women don't want them around because male teachers are a blow to the female teachers egos. Usually the favorite teachers of the students in the elementary schools are men, the female teachers don't like this. If you are trying to get a job in the elementary schools as a man good luck!
If girls are being short changed, then why is it that 60% of students going to college are female? The boys are the ones being ripped off in the schools!
Rating: 3
Summary: Not without flaws, but still a contribution
Comment: Self-esteem and school performance are often correlated. Teenagers who have high self-esteem are more likely to well in school than those who don't. In fact, academic self esteem is considered a component of general self-esteem (Harter, 1987). It is not clear how these are related; perhaps success in school makes a teenager feel better about him/herself. The data collected in the AAUW study are readily available on disk for any interested researcher. Although this book has a number of flaws, it makes a contribution to knowledge about today's teenagers in the US.
Reference:
Harter, S. (1987). The determinants and mediational role of global self-worth in children. In N. Eisenberg (Ed.) Contemporary topics in developmental psychology (pp. 219 - 242). New York: Wiley.
Rating: 1
Summary: Pop/Pseudo-science
Comment: Save your money. This report has been debunked by many other researchers. The conclusions reached by this "study" appear to have nothing to do with the actual data collected by the researchers. They seem to have been written before the data was even collected. While this report is widely available, the data it is based on is reportedly difficult to acquire, and with reason: it is embarrasing to the AAUW researchers. How do they conclude that girls are short-changed? Because their self-esteem is lower, and thus their school performance. Then higher self-esteem means higer performance, right? What they DON'T tell you in this report is that they found black boys to have the highest self-esteem of all the groups studied. So then why are black boys the group with the poorest performance? This "study" is by NO MEANS a serious academic work.
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Title: FAILING AT FAIRNESS: HOW AMERICA'S SCHOOLS CHEAT GIRLS by Myra Sadker, David Sadker ISBN: 068480073X Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein ISBN: 0385425767 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children by American Association of University Women ISBN: 1569246653 Publisher: Marlowe & Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Mary Pipher ISBN: 0345392825 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters by Karen Stabiner ISBN: 1573229946 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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