In Vassar College, a liberal arts school in New York, women outnumber men by a shocking 3 to 2 ratio. This statistic of Vassar College has people questioning: Did the men go there to study or to get with women? Boys and girls are different, especially in terms of behavior and development. Boys generally take longer to mature, and tend to misbehave during their elementary, middle, and high school years. Kimberly Tsaousis, a college prep adviser, says “Girls are way more likely to just pay attention.” Girls also spend more time doing homework than boys.
The books written by Bloomsburg students seem to stick to this tradition. Females provide care/guidance for a child in eighty students’ stories, making it the most common character action/trait used. Another observation of conformity to gender roles was that all acts of violence were committed by males, and all criminals present in the books were male. A few of the students challenged traditional gender norms by assigning females to be doctors, police officers, and politicians. I analyzed “A Trip to the Hospital” by classmate Krysten Coleman.
In this essay I will be looking into the theory why boys are now seen by many as the gender of failure in Education. Until the mid 1980s, boys outperformed girls in schools up to the age of eleven. This was seen as natural, except by feminists. The impact of feminist research changed many attitudes in schools so that there were educational policies that set out to raise the attainment of girls. By the mid 1980s, girls and boys were achieving equally well.
Researched Argumentative Essay “Why Geeks are More Successful” by Adele Melander-Dayton should be required reading for English 102 classes because it shows that popularity is detrimental to high school students and that “outsiders” actually have characteristics that are beneficial in adult life and this article can convince students that popularity isn’t important, it’s harmful. Melander-Dayton’s article is based on the book “The Geeks will Inherit the Earth” by Alexandra Robbins. Robbins is the more important author in this area so I will focus primarily on what she has said as far as information, but I am analyzing Dayton’s article. High school students have always had the “in” group and various groups of outsiders (Cross 27). New studies and information are showing that, despite popular belief, popularity can be harmful to students, especially after they graduate.
She found that their priorities had changed from love and marriage in the 1970s to jobs, aspirations and careers in the 1990’s. This shows that more women are changing their way of thinking in terms of their philosophy. In terms of achievement, on average girls are still getting better grades than boys. This is shown by a graph done by the Department for Education Statistics of Education. Percentage of School Leavers Achieving 5+ A-C (or Pass) O-level or A*-C GCSE by Gender (1962–2006) As you can see from the graph, the gap between girl’s achievement and boy’s achievement is widening.
Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess the view that gender differences in education are largely the result of changes in the education system. A notable feature of the education system in the UK is differences in achievement between boys and girls. Official statistics provide evidence of gender differences at all stages of education. On entering school, girls were able to concentrate for longer than boys; by the end of KS3, girls perform better than boys, especially in English; at GCSE, the gender gap is very prominent with girls achieving 65% 5+ A*-C compared to 55% of boys. Sociologists have put forward many explanations for these differences, many of which are a result of changes in the education system.
In his last refutation, he give a statistic of more than 1000 Michigan elementary school students; if they were born a member o the opposite sex, more than 40 percent of the girls are happy to being a boy, and ninety five percent of the boy feel uncomfortable to being a female. Finally, he includes his article with hoping the public and congress will not be taken in by the book’s misrepresentations. David is successful to convince me that male has more advantages than female does. At school, the boys’ score on the test are higher than girls’. The good behaviors of girl, such as paying attention, doing homework, being nice with teacher and classmate … just help girls get the high grade in record card.
* As standards of living increased and childhood came to be seen as a special period , therefore sizes of families were limited. * Attitudes to women's roles changed dramatically meaning more women chose to have careers instead of having children or having less children so they could work. CHANGES IN THE FERTILITY RATE * The fertility rate generally refers to the number of children that women of childbearing age have in any one year. The rates have declined over the past of 100 years. * In 1990 there were 115 live births per 1000 women aged 15 to 44 compared to only 57 in 1999.
Yes, foreign languages should be required in schools because they improve your likely hood of getting into college, and teaching languages in schools helps to widen the variety of jobs we can get and how we preform in them. “The foreign language department is one of the first programs that are cut due to budget shrinks in American Public Schools” (Staff Writers). With the lack of knowledge in our language department, we as a country are also lacking the opportunity to create jobs and improve our chances of getting a good education. “In general, competitive colleges require at least two years of foreign language classes in high school” (Grove) Which means that if colleges are requiring it, our schools should be teaching it in order for the students to get the best education possible in the long run. “An estimated 60,000 American students study Chinese, compared to 200 million Chinese students studying English.
It rose 4 more in the 90s, and in the next decade it grew even more quickly (Schneider). The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) released a fact sheet, and a woman in the America is still only likely to make 77 cents per dollar that a man makes. This is about the same rate as a decade ago. This is even due to the fact that women have risen in education to out-do men. The wage gap has remained not because men's wages have been booming.