Women's Educational Equity Act is No Longer Necessary

	posted by Scott on Tuesday October 16, @02:53PM from the education dept.
	Neil Steyskal sent in this report by The Heritage Foundation. Krista Kafer writes that the Women's Educational Equity Act is currently wasting taxpayer dollars that could be used to help economically disadvantaged children, which are currently the ones in most need of more educational resources. In the process, Kafer debunks the myth that "schools shortchange girls," and points out many areas where boys are doing very poorly. The report seems targeted to lawmakers, and includes important graphs and statistical information.

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Good report! by cheddah on Tuesday October 16, @03:49PM EST (#1) (User #190 Info) Does anyone know how much influence the Heritage Foundation has in affecting change? Points of interest from this article: 1. Currently there is no "checking into" the progress/status of the $100 million dollars that is allocated for the advancement of girls? 2. There is no specific funding for boys. 2. This report claims that there is no "war being waged against boys" yet: - A University of Michigan study echoes these findings: More boys than girls reported that they did not like school -Girls report high self-esteem and school enjoyment -Girls are more likely than boys to graduate from high school and college -Girls are more likely to participate in school activities -Girls outscore boys in civics and the arts. ... I think that there is ample evidence to support the notion that federal money was used to "wage war on the boys" by constantly advancing just the girls...

Re:Good report! by frank h on Tuesday October 16, @04:03PM EST (#2) (User #141 Info) Do you have a source (link or publisher) of the U of MI report? I'd like to get a copy. Frank H

Re:Good report! by cheddah on Tuesday October 16, @05:23PM EST (#3) (User #190 Info) 14. OERI, NAEP 1999 Trends in Academic Progress: Three Decades of Student Performance , NCES 2000469, August 24, 2000, at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=20 00469. PG 52

Link to an example of federally sponsered sexism by cheddah on Tuesday October 16, @05:37PM EST (#4) (User #190 Info) Here is a link that shows how feminist sexism as it relates to manipulating classroom behaivior based only on gender (i.e to only advance girls...) http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/pdffiles/sciguide. pdf

Quote from CHS by Anonymous User on Tuesday October 16, @06:23PM EST (#5) How do boys fit into the "tragedy" of America's "shortchanged" girls? Inevitably, boys are resented, being seen both as the unfairly privileged gender and as obstacles on the path to gender justice for girls. There is an understandable dialectic: the more girls are portrayed as diminished, the more boys are regarded as needing to be taken down a notch and reduced in importance. This perspective on boys and girls is promoted in schools of education, and many a teacher now feels that girls need and deserve special indemnifying consideration. "It is really clear that boys are no. 1 in this society and in most of the world," says Dr. Patricia O'Reilly, professor of education and director of the Gender Equity Center at the University of Cincinnati.

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