Gender and Education (Hyperlink)

When I was looking online for links about gender and education I found a lot of different viewpoints. I saw that people were split on which gender was getting "screwed" by the educational system. People had very strong opinions and facts to back up their views on gender.

Male Inequality  Male Inequality 2

This link shows how males are at a disadvantage when they are in college. In the video this is said to happen because of the low grade point averages males get along with bad test scores on standardized tests. According to a quote by A.Mulrine she states that 70% of the D and F that teachers give to students are to the male sex. She also says that 2/3 of them are labeled with learning disabilities and 80% of drop outs are male. This is something that needs to be focused on. If these numbers are this drastic then something must be going wrong.

Female Inequality 

This link shows how female students are at a disadvantage in the college classroom as well. The video is a clip of a larger video that speak to the problem that women have with keeping up in the classroom. It is from the perspective of women themselves and how they feel they are being treated in the classroom. In the few seconds of the clip they show a few women explaining situations that bug them. One woman talks about how when she tries to speak up and prove a point in a class she is bitchy but a man is just thought to be proving a point.

Fixing the Problem

This link shows the difference between boys and girls. Since this is such a growing problem people are trying to think of solutions to help solve the problem. One thing people have thought about is same sex classrooms. They think having all boys and all girls to be in one classroom would be the best idea. In the video they say this would help the teachers to help students more and to really focus on what each gender needs.

In class I would like to discuss the successfulness of same sex classrooms. Are they really working?