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Gender – Part 2

By Ann York

Shortly after my recent post on Gender: An Academic Question, two articles on gender appeared. The first, and most important, was the Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. The rather upbeat title stems from the fact that women now make up half the workforce, a percentage that will likely continue to grow. However, the... »

Gender: An Academic Question

By Ann York

“For every 100 American women enrolled in college, there are only 77 men. And for every 100 women who graduate with a bachelor’s degree, only 73 men accomplish that, according to data from the Postsecondary Education Opportunity.” These facts, cited in a blog in the NYTimes, are well known to PowerProfs as Fritz and... »

The High Price of the Achievement Gap

By Ann York

Thomas Friedman has been sounding the alarm about US education for a while, and he notes in his April 21 NY Times article: …the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment that measured the applied learning and problem-solving skills of 15-year-olds in 30 industrialized countries, the U.S. ranked 25th out of the 30 in math and... »