sex differences in education

If we want girls to succeed, we need to teach them the audacity to transgress. Through the lives of students at three very different schools, an award-winning scholar-activist makes the case for 'feminist schools' that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement.

Some people strongly believe boys and girls should go to separate schools, while others believe this isn't good for students. Readers will discover the facts on both sides of the debate, and learn to form their own opinions.

Explores the biological gender differences that influence how boys and girls learn and discusses how the American education system can be adapted to better serve various learning rates.

Examines how girls' unique sensory, physical, cognitive, and emotional characteristics affect their performance in the classroom, and shows you how to adapt classroom experiences to assist girls' learning, particularly in math and science. --from publisher description.

"Shares practical advice and activities for parents and educators for engaging today's young women in STEM subjects while giving them the tools of positive entrepreneurship"--OCLC.

Draws on the latest research as well as classroom-tested strategies to explain how the cognitive, sensory, physical, social, and emotional differences in between boys and girls influences how boys learn and offers teachers advice on the best ways to teach male students.

Analyzes the potential causes of the growing number of unmotivated and underachieving males, including video games, teaching methods, prescription drugs, endocrine disrupters, and the devaluation of masculinity; and provides advice for parents on how to help their sons achieve.