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- Title: Challenging the Gender Divide: Improving Literacy for All.
- Author : Teacher Librarian
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 172 KB
Description
TEACHER-LIBRARIANS ARE RUSHING TO THE FRONT LINES TO HELP BATTLE THE LATEST CRISIS ON EDUCATION. A GENDER GAP EXISTS IN READING PROFICIENCY: BOYS DO NOT READ AS WELL AS GIRLS, EVEN WORSE, THAT GAP HAS BEENG ROWING OVER THE PAST DECADE. The challenge of enticing boys into reading has led teacher-librarians into a variety of inventive and proactive experiments. They have started "boys only" reading clubs, for example, and when necessary have enlisted male staff members to help run the clubs and serve as role models. They have purchased materials specifically for their appeal to boys and organized "gender specific" book displays in their libraries. As some schools move toward reorganizing reading classes on the basis of gender, some teacher-librarians have even considered the unthinkable: Should the library collection be reorganized in the same manner?