Image and link by Judith S. Kleinfeld
I have posted earlier on the "Well Curve" on why offering a mainstream approach in education today means that you miss the boat.
Here is another perspective that suggests that, surprise surprise, girls are different from boys. Now I am not the President of Harvard so you may not kill me for suggesting this. Kleinfeld tells us that the meaning of the diagram is this. Boys distribute on the conventional Bell Curve with long wings. There are more very successful boys but there are also more boys in trouble than girls who crowd into a more compressed distribution.
The fact is that boys are doing very badly at school (the link is to Kleinfeld's full article) compared to girls. Why - is surely the question of the day. It is clear that the conforming, low challenge, abstract and non-physical thrust of school and home-life today (don't climb that tree Johnny you may break your arm) does not fit boys. Just as a lot of school did not fit girls.
One of the saddest aspects of our modern dogma is that many hold to the idea that, apart from a few bumps and cavities, men and women are the same. Science and our experience tells us otherwise and the sooner we give up this idiocy the sooner we give back our sons a chance of getting a good education.
Thanks Nine Shift
