There have been numerous reports documenting the achievement gaps in education in America. Some focus on the racial gap, others on the gender gap, and AAUW’s own Where the Girls Are, released last year, focuses on gaps in educational achievement and attainment by gender as well as race and family income. McKinsey & Company recently [...]
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We’re Talking about Money
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged achievement gap, economy, Where the Girls Are on April 30, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Announcement: Where the Girls Are Panel
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged achievement gap, boys crisis, education, race ethnicity gender, Where the Girls Are on November 13, 2008, | 1 Comment »
This evening, report author and AAUW Research Associate Christianne Corbett will participate in a panel discussion on AAUW’s recent research report, Where the Girls Are: The Facts About Gender Equity in Education. Presented by Penn State Public Broadcasting , the panel will discuss the impact of gender, economic, and ethnic barriers to academic achievement. The event [...]
Education Olympics
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, tagged achievement gap, bachelor's degree, Education Olympics, gold medal, graduation, mathematics, Olympic Games, science, standardized tests, test scores on August 27, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
All this recent talk of Olympic gold medals and international competition has stirred my patriotic streak. I hope you caught the bug as well. But cheering got me thinking — where does the United States stack up in other competitions? I stumbled across the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Education Olympics today and was struck by [...]
Which Women (and Men) Are You Talking About?
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, tagged achievement gap, boys crisis, education, Where the Girls Are on May 22, 2008, | 2 Comments »
It’s been gratifying to see much of the dialogue generated by AAUW’s report, Where the Girls Are. I’ve noted, though, that a few persistent questions keep coming up on various Internet comment boards. Let me try to tackle two of them. Paraphrasing, the first question goes something like this: “If women are earning 57 percent [...]
Talking About Where the Girls Are
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, tagged achievement gap, boys crisis, education, race ethnicity gender, Where the Girls Are on May 22, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
We’re glad AAUW’s recent research report is getting so much coverage and is generating some positive, thoughtful discussion. That visibility is critical to solving the issues brought to light in the report. Thanks to all of the bloggers who have already joined the conversation. Here are some of the posts: • Inside Higher Education [Edit [...]
Build Buzz on Where the Girls Are
Posted in Equity in the News, Students & Educational Issues, tagged achievement gap, education, gender inequity, Where the Girls Are on May 20, 2008, | 7 Comments »
Today, AAUW released Where the Girls Are:The Facts About Gender Equity in Education, the most comprehensive analysis to date on trends in educational achievement by gender, race/ethnicity, and income. Many media outlets are already reporting this story. You can help spread the word about AAUW’s new research by commenting on the stories and blogs, including [...]
Where Are The Girls?
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, tagged achievement gap, boys crisis, education, race ethnicity gender, research, test scores, Where the Girls Are on May 19, 2008, | 19 Comments »
While I was presenting at the AAUW of New York state convention a few weeks ago, I mentioned the release of the new AAUW research report, Where the Girls Are. In describing the report, I said, “We’ve written a report showing that there is no boys’ crisis in education, because a lot of people still [...]
Refuting the “Boys’ Crisis” Myth
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged achievement gap, boys crisis, education, ethnicity, gender, graduation, race, Where the Girls Are on May 16, 2008, | 24 Comments »
When AAUW released its landmark report, How Schools Shortchange Girls in 1992, the startling results found that girls in grades K-12 received an inferior education to boys in America’s schools. Among other findings, the report revealed that girls received less attention in the classroom than boys, and girls were not pursing math- and science-related careers [...]
Abysmal Graduation Rates
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged achievement gap, America's Promise Alliance, American Idol, education, ged, graduation, Gretchen Wilson, High School on May 13, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
The other day I happened to catch a brief blurb in the news about country singer Gretchen Wilson achieving her GED at age 34. One of the main reasons she cited for obtaining her degree, after having dropped out of school in ninth grade, was that she did not want her seven-year-old daughter to believe [...]
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