The minds of Boys and Girls (YES)
Who's Failing (YES)
The Truth About Boys and Girls (NO)
Long-Term Trends, Reading, Math, and other subjects(NO)
Hard Wired Inequality(NO)
100
PET and MRI technologies now enable us to look inside these and compare boys and girls
What are brains
100
Boys earn 70% of these grades and fewer than half the A's
What are D's and F's
100
Experts are advising education and policy makers on how to make schools more this in an effort to reverse the slide toward female leaning learning?
What is boy friendly
100
Even though they dropped in the 1980's these scores for younger boys have been rising since the early 1990's?
What are NAEP Reading Scores
100
Research finds that men score this on test of general intelligence when compared to women?
What is the same
200
This part of a girl's brain is on average up to 25% larger than a boys.
What is the corpus callosum
200
Boys make up fewer than this precentage of college students.
What is 40%
200
These two factors, not gender are where the real gaps appear and where more help is needed?
What is Race and Class
200
The reading scores for these boys are more mixed than thoes of the younger boys?
What is older boys
200
Most of the reasearch with brain-based differences has been done on this group?
What is What is Adults. Mostly college students
300
Boys have less of these two chemicals in their bodies which makes it more likely that they will be physically impulsive and less likely that they will neurally combat their natrual impulsiveness to sit still empathically chat with a friend.
What are oxytocin and serotonin
300
80% of these are boys
What are high school drop outs
300
Because the idea that women might surpass men in some areas, boys are routinely characterized as this even though they continue to improve in real terms?
What is "Falling Behind"
300
Academic performance of minority boys is low, but it is not getting this. In fact the average 4th grade NAEP reading scores of black boys improved more from 1995 to 2005 than thoes of white and Hispanic boys or girls of any race?
What is worse
300
While there are differnces in male and female cognitive abilities, the research does not explain this?
What is What is the cause of the differences.
400
This memory storage area of a girls brain is larger than in a boys which increases girls learning advantage especially in language arts.
What is the Hippocampus
400
Boys dominate these brain related learning disorders?
What are ADD and ADHD
400
The current boys crisis debate is based more on this than on evidence. This benefits neither boys or girls and distracts from more serious educational problems?
What are Fear and Hope
400
Math scores have steadily done this since the 1980's?
What is risen
400
One branch of the debate over gender and education has focused on various theories of divergences between male and female brains. Men and women are __________ people say, lending to all kinds of alleged problems and disparities that must be addressed?
What is wired differently.
500
The more of these that a teacher uses to teach a lesson, the more likely boys are to "Zone Out" or go into a rest state.
What are Words
500
The gender gap in these subjects has been nearly closed by using more and writing to teach them?
What are Math and Science
500
Some say that contemporary classrooms are too structured supressing boys energetic natures and tendency to physical expression, others contend that boys need more structure and dicipline in schools. Who do some people blame?
What is misguided feminism
500
This subject showed no significant change in scores from 1994 to 2001?
What is geography
500
Scientific sounding brain reasearch has lent an aura of authority to people who see anxiety about boys as an opportunity for personal gain. Many have also added refashioned elements of sociology to their ____________?
What is Boys in crisis rehtoric.
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