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Title IX: Local high schools work to bridge achievement gap

Mastodon - Mon, 2012-09-10 17:00

Article here. Excerpt:

'Although girls and women have made significant progress in the 40 years since the introduction of Title IX — the law that prohibits educational programs that receive federal funding from discriminating on the basis of sex — students and educators say more work is needed to truly level the playing field.

A Daily Herald analysis based on data from the 2011 Illinois School Report Card found that while female students at the 25 top performing high schools in suburban Chicago scored higher than their male counterparts in the reading section of the 2011 Prairie State Achievement Exam, boys continue to outperform girls in the areas of math and science.'

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Rule 1 of feminist educational policy thinking

Matt - Tue, 2012-09-11 00:16

If boys are doing better than girls on the whole in some field, it's bad. It doesn't matter if girls are besting boys at 9 of 10 other things, if 1 out of those 10 things boys hold even a 1% lead, all Hell must be unleashed to right this outrageous injustice.

Soon boys will be locked out of STEM classes in high schools and colleges if there aren't enough girls willing to take those classes. This is the future unless the current line of thinking at the management/policy-making level of educational and governmental institutions is not changed.

BTW, not long ago the sciences were derided by feminists as basically evil patriarchal inventions designed to render the feminine irrelevant or subservient (funny, without modern science women would still be dying in childbirth on a regular basis, too). What changed, I wonder?

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