Girls' and Boys' Education - A Mind Map

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• Use the Note Area to cite sources of information you found. Click the upper right corner of the box to make the note pad appear, then type.

1. Level 2: Sources Before 2010. In the bubbles below, record the main idea of each of the five articles we read for the discussion posts. Use dates in APA style.
   1. How Schools Shortchange Girls: The main thing this article looks article looks at is how even with the education and success women get is that they are still being treated as secondary to me. It mentions how even though women may have the same or even higher education in the work place men typically get payed more and are treated better.
   2. The Truth About Boys And Girls: This talks about the difference between girls and boys educational growth. They discuss how boys educational levels are becoming more stagnant while girls educational levels are rapidly increasing and more and more girls are going on to higher education while more boys are dropping out.

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      • Note the citation here - it is APA style.  The author's last name and the date of the article/book.  Then at the end, you would have a list of references in APA style that would include the name of the article/book - like what most of you did for your biography project.
   3. The Problem With Gender-Based Education:This article basically says that boys and girls learn differently and mentions how girls are better at reading and writing while boys are better at math and science. So to fix this and get both gender to learn at a better pace they say boys and girls should go to different schools or at least have different classes whee they can learn with ways that will help them.
   4. Boys Are Struggling: It speaks about how boys are struggling in schools because teachers are not accommodating to how boys learn differently than girls. It says teachers are usually girls so they only teach how girls will understand and thats why boys struggle in reading.
   5. Landscapes Of Learning: This article focuses on the perceived thought that schools are really feminine places and says that the only reason boys don't to well in school is because they think of education as a feminine activity. So we should try to take feminine aspects out of learning.
2. Level 2: Sources After 2010. Choose 5 of the 8 new articles I provided, or search the web for others. Any combination is also fine. In the bubbles below, record the main idea of each.
   1. Science Teachers Favor Males in Class, Study Finds: It says in science classrooms girls are being treated differmtly, both female and male teachers favor male students more in science and pay more attention to them.

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      • http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2014/03/study_science_teachers_inadver.html?cmp=ENL-CM-NEWS2
   2. Gender Gaps Alter BenifitsOf Extra Curricular Activites, Study Finds: In rural communities students who participate in extra curricular activites tend to preform bette. Boys who are involved in church groups or the arts have better test scores and girls that participate in sports have higher gpas.

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      • http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2014/01/gender-gab-alter-benefits_of_.html?qs=girls+ans+boys
   3. A Closer Look at Why More Women Than Men Are Going to College: In the past year the % of girls has and is still rising. Reasons that girls go on often has to do with the school they attended and the courses they took.

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      • http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/college_bound/2013/10/a_closer_look_at_why_more_females_are_going_to_college.html?qs=girls+and+boys
   4. Math Anxiety Gets Fresh Look, Different Twist in New Research:: Girls have the highest anxiety toward math and boys have the highest anxiety toward reading. Talks of ways to fix it. compare the boys because they sometimes have slightly lower levels of math

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      • http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2013/08/math_anxiety_gets_Closer_look.html?qs=164934344095=boys+and+girls
   5. Math, Reading Gaps By Gender Persist, Global Study Finds: Girls are struggling in math and boys are struggling in reading. Studies show that the math gaps are happening within the higher levels of learning and the reading gaps are showing in the lower level students,

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      • http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2013/03/math_achievement_gap_for_girls.html?qs=boys+and+girls
3. Level 1: At least three connections go in bubbles on this level. What have you found to remain the same throughout both time periods (before 2010 and after 2010) concerning girls' and boys' ed? Write these connections in boxes/bubbles on this level.

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   • Here is where you show evidence of your thinking. Connect the pieces about boys and girls' education that you have found to be the same in sources before 2010 (which we read for the discussions) and in sources you found dated after 2010.
   1. This connects to the readings of Gender Based Education and in Math and Reading Gaps. Both of these articles talk about and mention how guys are good at science and math.
   2. This article connects with the articles on Math and Reading Gaps and Boys Are Struggling. They connect because they both talk about the gaps boys and girls start with during school. Girls are typically better at reading and writing and boys are better at math and science.
   3. There is a connection to the math and reading gaps and the problem with gender based education. Both of these articles talk of how boys struggle with reading and writing while girls flourish in these subjects.
   4. All of these articles ultimately connect with each other because they all stress the math and reading gaps between boys and girls and how one gender is better than the other at certain subjects.
4. Level 3: What differences in the updated information did you find? Compare articles dated after 2010 to those dated before 2010. Record at least three.
   1. Stop Penalizing Boys and science Teachers Favor Males in Class differ in that the first article says that boys get lower behavioral assesments which means they are not favored or treated any differently than girls while the other article talks of how science teachers always favor the males in class.
   2. In the article on Gender Bias in Education and an article called Landscapes of Learning have different views on the punishment for boys when they act out in schools. In the first article they belive in just saying "boys will be boys" when they act out while teachers in the other article belive in enforcing rules and self control.
   3. With the articles Gender Gaps After Benefits Of Extra Curricular Activites and The Problem With Gender Based Education they had a difference in the way they could increase the scores of boys and girls. Gender gaps said that you could put kids in extra curricular activites and that would increase scores in both makes and females but Gender Based Education says that this can be done by putting boys and girls in seperate classes.
   4. Level 4: Look at sources dated after 2010 that your group found for this week's discussion posts. On this level, show at least two likenesses (to the right) and two differences(to the left) you found as you studied these and ANY other works we have studied in the course. Cite your findings.
      1. Gender Bias in Education: The article says that there is evidence that shows that girls are becoming more academically succesfull than boys. (Greene)
      2. Stop Penalizing Boys For Not Being Able to Sit Still at School: On average boys recive lower behavioral assesments cores by teacher and these scores affect teachers over all perceotion of boys
         1. Gender Bias in Education: This one is showing bias to boys by just concluding for when the boys act up or do bad in a class like english they just say "Oh boys willl be boys"(Greene)
      3. Stop Penalizing Boys For Not Being Able to Sit Still at School: Boys are more likely to drop out of school and make up only 43% of college students.
      4. Level 5: What conclusion(s) have you drawn about girls and boys' education as a result of synthesizing all you have read for this assignment?
         1. In All of the articles it makes the point of saying boys are good at math and girls are good at english

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            • http://www.hereiswhereifound.com.  A notation needs to be on each of your bubbles in this area - support what you believe!  For example, you could refer to something in "Savage Inequalities", in which case you would write: (Kozol, 1991)
         2. Girls are are becoming more highly educated than boys now and are moving on to higher education where as boys are starting to decrease in the number going on to higher education.
            1. Boys and Girls both lack in certain subjects when they are younger but if teachers focus on the children's weak areas young they can succed in their weak areas.
            2. People are very Gender Biased toward young boys and girls and this affects how they learn and what goals that they set in life.
         3. Boys and girls both lack in certain subjects so if teachers focus on a child's weak areas they can be succesful in that area