Education Week. Chat Strategies for Addressing School Gender Gaps Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 4 to 5 p.m.
ET Click here for more information about this chat. Note: No special equipment other than Internet access is needed to participate in any of our text-based chats. Participants may begin submitting questions the morning of the chat. Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 4 to 5 p.m. As a principal, Kelley King was troubled by the gaps she saw between male and female students in reading, writing, and discipline. In this chat, King, the author of Writing the Playbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Creating a Boy-Friendly School, discussed the differences in the ways boys and girls learn and identify common school practices that have unintended negative outcomes for boys. Guest:Kelley King is a 25-year veteran educator, an international speaker, an author, and a mother of both a son and a daughter.
Liana Heitin, associate editor, Education Week Teacher, moderated this chat. The Fine Print. Girls' schools lead GCSE league tables amid warnings of maths gender gap. Girls' schools dominated the top of the league tables for GCSEs in England, with three out of the four top spots taken by selective state girls' schools according to data from the Department for Education.
Two other selective state girls' schools – Chelmsford County High School for Girls in Essex and Queen Elizabeth's School in north London – were the only ones to achieve the double of 100% passes for all their pupils in both the government's target for GCSEs and the newer English Baccalaureate, or EBacc, measure. The best performing non-selective state school was Watford Grammar School for Girls – it is a comprehensive despite the name – which had the highest proportion of pupils gaining A* and A grades among schools of its type.
The REAL gender gap scandal: Why boys are the true victims of discrimination. By Winifred Robinson Updated: 00:06 GMT, 8 August 2009 As one of six daughters growing up in the Seventies, girls were so little prized compared with boys that a friend of my father even expressed his sympathy rather than congratulations when my youngest sister, a perfectly healthy child, was born.
Can you imagine that happening now? I rather doubt it. In an almost complete reversal of attitudes, today's parents long for girls. As the mother of an only child, a son, I do not think I am exaggerating in saying that I detected something akin to sympathy when we announced that we had a boy. Boys do better in exams than girls because they are 'more willing to take risks', says Oxford University's head of admissions. Mike Nicholson is director of undergraduate admissions at the universityHe said that female students were risk-averse but boys 'went with gut'A levels saw 8% of boys get top grade of A* compared to 7.4% of girls By Amanda Williams Published: 15:34 GMT, 18 August 2013 | Updated: 23:02 GMT, 18 August 2013 Boys do better than girls in exams such as science because they are better at taking risks, the man in charge of admissions at Oxford University said yesterday.
Mike Nicholson claimed: ‘We have generally seen male students tend to be much more prepared to take risks, which is why they do well in exams. ‘Generally, female students are risk-averse and will tend to take longer to think about an answer. Why are girls succeeding at school? There are many varied reasons and theories to explain why girls do better in the educational system when compared to boys.
Girls tend to outperform boys at GCSE though the gap narrows when AS and A2 results are analysed. This narrowing at post-16 may simply be because the boys that Paul Willis labelled as ‘ear oles’ left immediately after their GCSE’s and left the more able boys to enter Sixth Form/Upper School. Therefore, it could be argued that the analysis of results at AS and A2 are done on a more level playing field and that the results at GCSE are slanted because they have to take into account the ‘ear oles’.
The reasons why girls do better than boys include: 1. 10. Courtesy of Lee Bryant, Director of Sixth Form, Anglo-European School, Ingatestone, Essex. What's Behind the Gender Gap in Education? Girls have a built-in neurological advantage over boys when it comes to language skills, according to new research from Northwestern University and the University of Haifa.
The researchers found that while girls can easily process language in the abstract, boys depend more on their senses. The upshot is that boys may need to be taught both visually and verbally, while girls can learn equally well through either means and presumably have an easier time with learning because of it. The findings may shed some light on a question that has been puzzling Gary Becker and Richard Posner: why do boys, on average, perform worse academically than girls do, from primary school right on through college? Huge gender gap in young children's abilities revealed in government figures.
One in four boys still struggle to write their own name by the age of five, according to new government figures that reveal a huge gender gap in young children's abilities.
Three in 10 five-year-old boys have trouble reciting the alphabet and one in five are unable to count to 10, according to statistics representing England and Wales, published for the first time today. The figures from the Department for Children, Schools and Families show how many five-year-olds reached specific early learning goals last year. Girls outperform boys at most levels with 78% of girls able to hold a pencil and write recognisable letters, compared with 62% of boys.
Nearly three-quarters of five-year-old girls (74%) could write a simple shopping list, or a letter to Father Christmas, but only half of boys (54%) could do so at the same age. Just over a quarter (26%) of boys aged five could not write their names, compared with 15% of girls. Schools Parents - Learning development of girls and boys. GCSE results 2012: exam breakdown by subject, gender and area.
This year's GCSE results are out today and show the top GCSE results fall for first time in history.
The Guardian's Jeevan Vasagar reports evidence that English GCSE students are being marked down to curb grade inflation. But how do the results compare across the board? To see the big picture of GCSE results this year we turn to the Joint Council For Qualifications (JCQ), the overview body which looks after exam results, and their complete analysis of how the exam results break down. We've extracted the UK datasets from the JCQ pdfs in this Google spreadsheet. GCSE results 2010: exam changes help boys catch up with girls. As thousands of students around the country rip open their GCSE results this morning, the gender debate that has been simmering for the last few years is set to ignite.
Girls have beaten boys to the top grades for the past two decades: this year, boys are expected to narrow the gap. SPREADSHEET OF RESULTS. GCSE results 2013: the complete breakdown. It's results day again, but this year shows some interesting changes in how UK students are performing in their GCSEs.
GCSE results 2010: exam breakdown by subject, school and gender.