Sadker's 'Failing At Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls'
Annotated Bibliography
Sadker and Sadker. “Hidden Lessons” From Inquiry to Academic Writing. Ed. Greene &
Lindinsky. Boston: Bedford/st. Martin’s 201. 52-55. Print
“Hidden Lessons” is an excerpt taken from Myra Sadker’s and David Sadker’s book Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls. Education is highly affected with sexism and favoritism of boys over girls. It is said that teachers and their gender bias are the main cause for most of female students’ problems. The authors share a study about evidencing those unconscious scenes of sexism which came up with expected but sad results. These behaviors were extremely elusive at plain sight yet definitely existed. Dateline, a TV show from NBC, helped spread the mentioned study and raise
awareness on the topic.
Although this excerpt is brief, it is very powerful. The message the Sadkers are transmitting is that sexist behaviors in American schooling are an unexposed issue. In order to eradicate the problem, it is necessary to train future teachers and scholars to be able to perceive sexist behaviors and to avoid them at all costs. Demeanors such as focusing completely on boys and despising girls seem acceptable for this society. It is a matter of how American society was constructed that lead to this sexist issue. A woman conducted the TV show that got involved in the spreading of this study results; no men would’ve tried to prove favoritism over boys for sure. It’s a relief that the future teachers were shocked and bewildered by the study. This reaction is the one that the Sadkers were looking for; to generate an impression and to promote change amongst the young that will take care of future education.
On the other hand, this excerpt is an excellent source of clear claims. As for what I was assigned to study this week (identifying claims and analyzing arguments), it allowed me to get a better understanding of the different types of claims and how are they used in writing. Sadker and Sadker are very precise with their writing and fully accomplished to convey their main claim about the sexist hidden lessons.
Sadker and Sadker. “Hidden Lessons” From Inquiry to Academic Writing. Ed. Greene &
Lindinsky. Boston: Bedford/st. Martin’s 201. 52-55. Print
“Hidden Lessons” is an excerpt taken from Myra Sadker’s and David Sadker’s book Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls. Education is highly affected with sexism and favoritism of boys over girls. It is said that teachers and their gender bias are the main cause for most of female students’ problems. The authors share a study about evidencing those unconscious scenes of sexism which came up with expected but sad results. These behaviors were extremely elusive at plain sight yet definitely existed. Dateline, a TV show from NBC, helped spread the mentioned study and raise
awareness on the topic.
Although this excerpt is brief, it is very powerful. The message the Sadkers are transmitting is that sexist behaviors in American schooling are an unexposed issue. In order to eradicate the problem, it is necessary to train future teachers and scholars to be able to perceive sexist behaviors and to avoid them at all costs. Demeanors such as focusing completely on boys and despising girls seem acceptable for this society. It is a matter of how American society was constructed that lead to this sexist issue. A woman conducted the TV show that got involved in the spreading of this study results; no men would’ve tried to prove favoritism over boys for sure. It’s a relief that the future teachers were shocked and bewildered by the study. This reaction is the one that the Sadkers were looking for; to generate an impression and to promote change amongst the young that will take care of future education.
On the other hand, this excerpt is an excellent source of clear claims. As for what I was assigned to study this week (identifying claims and analyzing arguments), it allowed me to get a better understanding of the different types of claims and how are they used in writing. Sadker and Sadker are very precise with their writing and fully accomplished to convey their main claim about the sexist hidden lessons.