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Work With Boys — Not Against Their Nature
Christina Hoff Sommers
Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of several books, including "The War against Boys."
Updated November 9, 2015, 8:20 AM
We need to raise boys and girls to be caring and considerate human beings. If an 11-year-old girl wants to play football and has the ability to compete with the guys, then let her play. My guess is that most boys would agree — and if she is a great player(...). But integrating football teams in junior high so girls have more options is hardly the most pressing equity issue in education. Boys are now the have-nots in education. The real challenge for the nation’s schools is to make the classroom more inclusive — for boys.
The recent advances of girls and young women in society are cause for celebration. They should not, however, blind us to the large and growing cohort of poorly educated young men who will be lost in our knowledge-based economy. Boys in all ethnic groups and social classes are far less likely than their sisters to feel connected to school, to earn good grades, or to pursue education beyond high school.
One way to address the college gap is to address the reading gap. Boys in all age groups score lower than girls on national reading and writing tests. A major study commissioned by in the U.K. discovered, perhaps not surprisingly, that girls tend to prefer fiction, magazines and poetry while boys are more likely to prefer comics and non-fiction. Boys whose eyes glaze over if forced to read "Little House on the Prairie" may be riveted by the Guinness Book of Records. Boys will read material that interests them. The government in the U.K. now advises all teachers to keep an up-to-date list of books that have proved irresistible to reading-resistant boys. Rather than try to change the basic nature of boys, why not work with who they are?
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We need to raise boys and girls to be caring and considerate human beings. If an 11-year-old girl wants to play football and has the ability to compete with the guys, then let her play. My guess is that most boys would agree — and if she is a great player(...). But integrating football teams in junior high so girls have more options is hardly the most pressing equity issue in education. Boys are now the have-nots in education. The real challenge for the nation’s schools is to make the classroom more inclusive — for boys.
The recent advances of girls and young women in society are cause for celebration. They should not, however, blind us to the large and growing cohort of poorly educated young men who will be lost in our knowledge-based economy. Boys in all ethnic groups and social classes are far less likely than their sisters to feel connected to school, to earn good grades, or to pursue education beyond high school.
One way to address the college gap is to address the reading gap. Boys in all age groups score lower than girls on national reading and writing tests. A major study commissioned by in the U.K. discovered, perhaps not surprisingly, that girls tend to prefer fiction, magazines and poetry while boys are more likely to prefer comics and non-fiction. Boys whose eyes glaze over if forced to read "Little House on the Prairie" may be riveted by the Guinness Book of Records. Boys will read material that interests them. The government in the U.K. now advises all teachers to keep an up-to-date list of books that have proved irresistible to reading-resistant boys. Rather than try to change the basic nature of boys, why not work with who they are?
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Source: boys-not-against-their-natur> (Adapted)
The recent advances of girls and young women in society are cause for celebration. They should not, however, blind us to the large and growing cohort of poorly educated young men who will be lost in our knowledge-based economy. Boys in all ethnic groups and social classes are far less likely than their sisters to feel connected to school, to earn good grades, or to pursue education beyond high school.
One way to address the college gap is to address the reading gap. Boys in all age groups score lower than girls on national reading and writing tests. A major study commissioned by in the U.K. discovered, perhaps not surprisingly, that girls tend to prefer fiction, magazines and poetry while boys are more likely to prefer comics and non-fiction. Boys whose eyes glaze over if forced to read "Little House on the Prairie" may be riveted by the Guinness Book of Records. Boys will read material that interests them. The government in the U.K. now advises all teachers to keep an up-to-date list of books that have proved irresistible to reading-resistant boys. Rather than try to change the basic nature of boys, why not work with who they are?
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Topics: Culture, men, parenting, women
Source: boys-not-against-their-natur> (Adapted)
One way to address the college gap is to address the reading gap. Boys in all age groups score lower than girls on national reading and writing tests. A major study commissioned by in the U.K. discovered, perhaps not surprisingly, that girls tend to prefer fiction, magazines and poetry while boys are more likely to prefer comics and non-fiction. Boys whose eyes glaze over if forced to read "Little House on the Prairie" may be riveted by the Guinness Book of Records. Boys will read material that interests them. The government in the U.K. now advises all teachers to keep an up-to-date list of books that have proved irresistible to reading-resistant boys. Rather than try to change the basic nature of boys, why not work with who they are?
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Topics: Culture, men, parenting, women
Source: boys-not-against-their-natur> (Adapted)
Join Opinion on Facebook and follow updates on twitter.com/roomfordebate.
Topics: Culture, men, parenting, women
Source: boys-not-against-their-natur> (Adapted)
The expression have-nots in the sentence "boys are now the have-nots in education" suggests that:
