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Chargement... The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Dopar Peg Tyre
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Adult nonfiction; education/social issues. Peg Tyre builds on the work of Leonard Sax but fails to add much new apart from some perspective on why people have trouble acknowledging that boys are in fact at a disadvantage in today's educational institutions (it has a lot to do with not wanting to take attention or support away from the feminist movement). Her research is also somewhat spotty and not thoroughly convincing; however, teachers and parents of boys who struggle in school will be well advised to read this as well as Sax's Boys Adrift and Why Gender Matters. ( ) Peg Tyre provides a sobering look at how the modern school system is failing boys. Boys nationwide, across all lines of wealth and poverty are straggling behind girls. Boys are less motivated, less inclined to participate in school activities. This goes from homework to extracurriculars (not including sports). Since so much effort has been put into supporting and promoting female success at school, the success of the boys has fallen by the wayside. More at http://thenovelworld.com/2014/08/11/the-trouble-with-boys-by-peg-tyre/ From the beginning, I was really annoyed by the tone of Tyre's writing. It seemed like she was really talking down to her readers, saying things like "stay with me while I give you some important facts", etc. as if I couldn't pay attention through anything remotely scientific. But I did think some of her info was pretty interesting. This book draws attention to the ways that current education trends are failing boys. I have a very young son (19 months) and I felt that it was good to have some of these thoughts on the radar. The statistics are really shocking - even middle class, white boys are far behind the girls in their classes and standardized tests in EVERY subject, even science and math, traditionally thought to be "boy" subjects. This starts in pre-school where boys are expelled (you can be expelled from preschool?!!!!) at 4 times the rate of girls and continues through college where now males only make up about 40% of students, even with some "affirmative action" in favor of boys. This was an interesting, if poorly written book. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. Perhaps most alarmingly, boys now account for less than 43 percent of those enrolled in college, and the gap widens every semester! The growing gender imbalance in education portends massive shifts for the next generation: how much they make and whom they marry. Interviewing parents, kids, teachers, and experts, journalist Peg Tyre drills below the statistics to examine how the educational system is failing our sons. But this passionate, clearheaded book isn't an exercise in finger-pointing. Tyre, the mother of two sons, offers the testimony of teachers and school officials who are trying new techniques to motivate boys to learn again, one classroom at a time. This book is a manifesto for change--one we must undertake right away lest school become, for millions of boys, unalterably a "girl thing."--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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