Gender Differences In Education

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When looking at like, as a whole, the differences between men and women seem small. Even insignificant when a step is taken back and the real issues that concerns the daily lives of human beings are thought of. Life, death, family, survival in general as the world changes. As has been said before, the more that changes the more that stays the same. The issues confronting men and women and the education process are complicated ones. Some claim that men (boys) have had centuries of preferential treatment in institutional learning settings. That feeling has led to a shift of thinking in the educational system. As a shift of thinking happened to attempt to become more inclusive for girls, it left some thinking, of course, that things had gone too far. Making an effort to level the educational system does not mean things have gone too far. It must be realized that gender differences are here to stay in combined schools and the dynamic should be embraced to improve education for all.
Even discussing the topic of gender roles in school can bring out the worst of stereotypes concerning the two sexes. Boys like to play with cars and trucks and play sports while girls like to sit in corners and brush their doll’s hair while being sweet and quite. Neither of those scenarios are correct, yet it cannot be denied that there are real difference between the sexes that act upon the quality of education.
Differences are there but is there any need to skew education towards one gender or another? Virginia Bonomo in her 2010 article titled, Gender Matters in Elementary Education: Research-Based Strategies to Meet the Distinctive Learning Needs of Boys and Girls said, “Research indicates that gender influences how children learn. Those findings ...

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... said to demean women and young girls. Words, that might perpetuate the myth that men and women are different. Words that might have more than one interpretation. Dangerous words. Evil words. Malevolent words. Words like mailman. Workman. Manager. Manhole cover. Manly. Caveman.” The added tension in the classroom over political correctness is not going to assist in the process of making education better for either sex.
It is easy to say that boys are not being short changed in school, but it is difficult to find why they are showing a trend of underperforming compared to females. There are biological factors at play the cause them to be misclassified and placed in special education. The facts though do not prove that this is due to more a focus on girls in the classroom. A solution can be reached so that all students no matter the gender get the proper education.

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