Earlier this week, a panel at the Academy for Educational Development’s Center for Gender Equity on “Adolescent Girls and the Workforce” offered strong arguments for working towards gender equity jointly in education and the labor force worldwide. May Rihani, Director of AED’s Global Learning Group, opened the discussion by calling for secondary education to step [...]
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The Same Same-Sex Story
Peter Meyer, writing in the newest Education Next, tells us a familiar story of same-sex schools. He cites NAEP statistics that show boys aren’t doing as well as girls, spotlights a handful of successful single-gender schools and quotes people who reference but do not cite “study after study” that demonstrates that both boys and girls [...]
Are Men More Cleverer Than Women?
A new study just released in the UK claims that intelligence gaps do innately exist between the sexes, with men scoring an average of 5 points higher on IQ tests than women, and outnumbering women more than 5 to 1 in the “genius” category. The researchers found this interesting, given that “this is against a [...]
Pay Gaps and the Boy Crisis
Matthew Yglesias uses the NYT’s groovy new salary comparison calculator to illustrate gender gaps in pay for young women, and concludes that “Most of these people are just starting out, and the men are already earning substantially more.”
Indeed. As I noted here, U.S. Department of Education data show that young men are earning more than [...]
Boys and Girls: A Blast from the Past
Washington Post Magazine celebrates its 20th birthday this week with an issue of excerpts from noteworthy articles it’s published over the past two decades. Interesting stuff, from dispatches from war zones in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, and Iraq; to the Monica Lewinsky and Jessica Cutler scandals; to the Great Zucchini. But one 1993 article in [...]
International Perspective
A new UNESCO report looks at educational issues internationally and finds progress but lots of room for growth. About 86 percent of primary-school aged children are enrolled in school, and Sub-saharan Africa, which has the lowest rate of youngsters attending primary school, increased primary school enrollments 27 percent between 1999 and 2004. Progress is [...]
Snakes, and Snails, and Puppy Dog tails
Who knew this would spark so much sound and fury? Certainly not me.
Of course, not everyone likes my arguments about why we shouldn’t be panicking about a so-called “boy crisis.” This John Leo blog post provides a pretty good example of some of the less positive feedback I’ve been getting. I have [...]
World Cup 2007, Thanks Title IX
Today marks the 34th anniversary of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. I didn’t realize that I was a Title IX baby (the law passed just three months after I was born), until I was an adult. But I know I reaped the benefits, along with millions of other little [...]
David Brooks on Gender=Fourth Stomach in Cow
Yesterday’s David Brooks column on “The Gender Gap at School” ($-sorry) manages to combine three elements that are guaranteed to make me want to bang my head against a wall in frustration: sweeping generalizations about gender; gross oversimplification (and abuse) of brain research; and sweeping, non-empirically correct generalizations about public education. Goody!
To paraphrase Brooks: “Golly, [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.