An Education Week (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2011/05/house_calls_for_eliminating_mo.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1)post caught my eye:
Forty-three education programs would be scrapped under a bill introduced today by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Education and the Workforce subcommittee that oversees K-12 policy. Looking at the summary (http://edworkforce.house.gov/UploadedFiles/SUMMARY_-_Setting_New_Priorities_in_Education_Spending_Act.pdf) I found this from the Education and Workforce Committee:
• Women’s Educational Equity: The Women’s Educational Equity program promotes education equity for women and girls. The program received $1.8 million in FY 2008 and $2.4 million in both FY 2009 and 2010. Funding for the program was eliminated in the final FY 2011 budget agreement and the president’s FY 2012 budget request. Research has shown this program is no longer necessary; a March 17, 2010 article in Education Week noted the traditional achievement gap between boys and girls in math has closed, with the "percentages of both genders scoring ‘proficient’ or higher [being] roughly the same." On the other hand, that same article observes that "male students in every state where data were available lag behind females in reading."
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Friday, May 13, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
The other day my Google Alert provided me with a link to a report titled "Women in America" that was published by the White House. After a couple of clicks I discover that there is actually a White House Council on Women and Girls. Terrific. I then do a search of the White House page to find the White House Council on Men and Boys. Nope, doesn't exist.
So in this day and age of post Title IX, how can we have a White House Council for Women and Girls without a Council on Men and Boys. Is it that the country is trying to bring equity and parity among women and men? Reading lots of news reports today though we find that women and girls are in fact out performing men and boys in lots of areas.
Do we need a White House Council on Men and Boys? If so, what would that look like? What would they need to focus on? If not, why not?
Link to the White House Council for Women and Girls:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cwg/
Link to the data page on women which includes the report:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cwg/data-on-women
So in this day and age of post Title IX, how can we have a White House Council for Women and Girls without a Council on Men and Boys. Is it that the country is trying to bring equity and parity among women and men? Reading lots of news reports today though we find that women and girls are in fact out performing men and boys in lots of areas.
Do we need a White House Council on Men and Boys? If so, what would that look like? What would they need to focus on? If not, why not?
Link to the White House Council for Women and Girls:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cwg/
Link to the data page on women which includes the report:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cwg/data-on-women
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