Why boys fail : saving our sons from an educational system that's leaving them behind /
The signs and statistics are undeniable: boys are falling behind in school. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the biggest culprits are not video games, pop culture, or female-dominated schools biased toward girls. The real problem is that boys have been thrust into a bewildering new school environmen...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
American Management Association,
©2012.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Table des matières:
- Discovering the problem
- The reason for the boy troubles: faltering literacy skills
- The likely causes of the reading lapses
- The writing failures
- The blame game: what gets blamed (unfairly) for the gender gaps
- Solutions: what works for boys?
- Impediments to a solution: the ideological stalemate
- The international story: Australians struggle with the boy troubles
- Why these gender gaps matter
- Actions that need to be taken.