Still Failing at Fairness How Gender Bias Cheats Girls and Boys in School and What We Can Do About It

by Sadker, David; Zittleman, Karen R.

• ISBN13: 9781416552475
• ISBN10: 1416552472
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-28
• Publisher: Scribner

Summary

Now thoroughly revised and updated, this groundbreaking book on gender bias brings the issue up to date, examining the impact of the backlash against gender issues since the book was first published in 1994, and exploring the current movement toward same-sex education.

Author Biography

David Sadker is professor emeritus at American University (Washington, DC) and, along with his late wife Myra Sadker, gained a national reputation for work in confronting gender bias and sexual harassment.  David Sadker has directed more than a dozen federal education grants, and authored or co-authored seven books, including the bestselling introductory teacher education textbook, Teachers, Schools and Society, (McGraw Hill, 2008). The American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) honored the Sadkers for “the best review of research” published in 1991, for their professional service in 1995, and for “scholarship, activism, and community building on behalf of women and education” in 2004. The American Association of University Women awarded the Sadkers’ their Eleanor Roosevelt Award in 1995, and the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education recognized their work with the Gender Architect Award in 2001. David Sadker has received two honorary doctorates. He currently teaches at the University of Arizona.

Karen R. Zittleman is co-author of Teachers, Schools, and Society (McGraw-Hill), and a contributing author to Gender in the Classroom: Foundations, Skills, Methods and Strategies Across the Curriculum and wrote Making Public Schools Great for Every Girl and Boy. She has taught at American University.