How Schools Shortchange Girls: The AAUW Report : A Study of Major Findings on Girls and Education - Softcover

American Association Of University Women; AAUW Members

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569248214 ISBN 13: 9781569248218

Publisher: Marlowe & Company, 1995

Synopsis

This eye-opening study served as a wake-up call, exposing the systematic bias that girls face in education. While girls and boys enter school roughly equal in measured ability, by age fifteen girls have poor self-images and constrained views of their futures. In addition to a wealth of data, the report also suggests specific strategies to effect changes. This book catalyzed local, state, and national action, and today few conversations about gender and education in the academic and research communities neglect to mention this watershed report.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The Wellesley College Center for Research on Women researched gender bias in United States schools and came up with a detailed analysis of how gender-insensitive curriculum, testing and policies handicap girls. Covering 20 years of research on girls in preschool through the 12th grade, the report documents the effects of gender inequities not only on the college-bound but on girls in vocational programs and teen mothers as well. It concludes with 40 sensible, straightforward recommendations for changing schools, like encouraging young mothers to stay in school or choosing programs that do not perpetuate gender stereotypes.The AAUW already released this report but hopes to reach a wider audience by publishing it in this slim volume. Deborah Tannen's endorsement will help, but lack of overarching authorship or voice gives the book a bland, clinical, by-committee style. Unfortunately, individual human subjects are conspicuously absent, as well, so readers end up with numbers, charts and laws filling their heads, rather than the girls who are the purpose of the study. Although a must for educators and researchers, How Schools Shortchange Girls lacks popular appeal.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review:

Parents, teachers and policymakers receive a study which presents major findings on girls and education, documenting exactly how and why schools shortchange girls in the educational process. Research is specific and reaches beyond generalities to document exactly how girls and boys learn and what the differences are in their classroom experiences. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Marlowe & Company
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1569248214
• ISBN 13: 9781569248218
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240