Given the conversation about gender that took place at last week's Monitors' Meeting, I found this particular Opinionator entry of real interest:http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/the-boys-at-the-back/
I do believe it is appropriate for us to re-engage the conversation about gender at Blair. The distribution in upper-class effort marks is a good outward indicator of gendered approaches to education and community. How can we get a dialogue on this issue going with our student body? Do we prime our students with how we frame the conversation? How do the great all-boys schools deal with this issue? Can we look at programmatic approaches to improving male achievement?
Thanks for sharing this piece. . . it is so interesting (especially as a mother to both genders). I hope that we will continue to engage in a dialogue about gender at Blair. As the reader comments following the piece suggest -- there is no easy answer and many opinions. We are discussing gender in my class this week, and I will ask my students to read the article...
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