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lumberjack_jeff

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8. You have to play the ball where it lies.

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 06:57 PM

Mar 2012

nearly 90% of teachers are female and that won't change any time soon. It is therefore important to figure out how to make boys education succeed despite the absence of male educational role models.

Single sex classrooms are the most promising way to do that. In my opinion, a woman teacher can do a great job in a classroom of exclusively boys because they will (of necessity) adopt a teaching style that works for her students. In a co-ed classroom, a female teacher is going to stick with the style that worked for her... and half her students.

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Are Boys Making the Grade? Gender Gaps in Achievement and Attainment [View all] lumberjack_jeff Dec 2011 OP

Maybe if we stopped expecting everyone to develop in lockstep at the same rate, bemildred Dec 2011 #1

Boys underachieve compared to their fathers. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2011 #2

So maybe it's not them, maybe their environment has gotten worse? bemildred Dec 2011 #3

The worsening environment is selective. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2011 #4

The environment can have selective effects based on gender? bemildred Dec 2011 #5

a) yes. A changed environment has harmed boys education, and b) I'm not blaming them. n/t lumberjack_jeff Dec 2011 #6

It's not just single sex classrooms. Glassunion Mar 2012 #7

You have to play the ball where it lies. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2012 #8