|
Britain's schools cheat a generation of boys; `anti-elitist' movement has destroyed the competition, structure and discipline they require.
|
LONDON _ Just when you thought nothing new could be added to progressive education's long catalog of failures, yet one more has come to light _ and it is a particularly grave failure.
Progressive education is responsible for the epidemic of underachievement among boys in British state schools, now so widespread that it's taking on the proportions of a national crisis.
While boys once lagged behind girls only in the early years of primary education (and then only in English and history rather than math or science) they now fall behind in both English and mathematics and ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research
(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)
|
Oh no, not another class of victims: 'If boys are lagging, it's up to them to study harder'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...expand their mandate to boys. Here's a better suggestion...nothing in the name of boys per se. If boys are lagging in undergraduate...boy shortage: feminized progressive education. Teacher education programs...mastery in a subject, many boys are going to tune out...crushing ...
|
|
|
What about the boys? In the midst of Girl Power, troublesome questions are being raised about their male counterparts.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Big boys don't cry. Mama's boy. Take it like a man...and the girls movement, we have not yet let boys out of this box. According to a growing body...and everyday folks who live and work with boys, it's not just any old box that we've put...
|
|
Booker T. Washington and progressive education: An experimentalist approach to curriculum development and reform
Magazine article from: The Journal of Negro Education
; ...consistent with the broad movement of progressive education. Specifically, he introduced progressive-experimentali...Washington. Paternity for the progressive education movement is an idea that is strongly...loosely marked by historians of progressive education as the period in time ...
|
|
Without guidance, boys will be troubled boys
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Will boys continue to kill in our nation's schoolyards...yes, says William Pollack, author of "Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From the Myths of Boyhood...published by Random House. Pollack argues that boys need help in trying to understand what it...
|
|
The Columbine Syndrome.(paranoia about potentially violent boys)
Newspaper article from: National Forum
; Boys and The Feat of Violence I don't want to be that type of kid who comes to school and just takes out a gun and starts...Jimmy, age 16, from a small town in the West Probably no risk other than violence has made America more afraid of boys and made boys more afraid of being male and living in this ...
|
|
Boys' disadvantage in the classroom a myth, group says
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune
; WASHINGTON - Both boys and girls are doing better in school, so...fear that school systems favor girls at boys' expense, a women's advocacy group said...today. It's the freshest argument in the boys vs. girls debate in education, one in which...
|
|
The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Childhood Education
; THE MINDS OF BOYS: Saving Our Sons From Falling Behind in School and...techniques and strategies to better meet the needs of boys. Their topics include: the current crisis in education for boys, how boys learn, helping boys through the early years...
|
|
Boys will be boys.(psychology)
Magazine article from: Public Interest
; Are boys in trouble today? Their situation is desperate, according to...several best-selling books, most notably William Pollack's Real Boys and Michael Gurian's The Wonder of Boys and A Fine Young Man. Both Pollack, codirector of the Center...
|
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
|
Interactive: Boys will be boys - if the subject is right.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; Boys may be about to lose the battle of the sexes even in cyberspace...to new research. Up to now, as evidence has mounted that boys are slipping behind girls in basic literacy, there has been...them. When the last traditional book has crumbled into dust, boys will be the new masters in a world of ...
|
|
Boys will be boys: A case for single-gender education
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin
; face=+Bold; Boys simply don't learn the same way girls do, so why do we try to force them to?face=-Bold; BOYS ARE different from girls. How's that for...points. For starters, the natural thing for boys and girls is to be extremely different...
|
For more facts and information,
see all results
Find more facts and information related to the article "Britain's schools cheat a generation of boys; ..."
