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The MJLU EER - Is it Really a Finding of Gender Inequality?

OK, to get into the meat of the MJLU EER, the more I look at the study, the more a see a greater finding of gender inequality, than of racial inequality.  I have not done out all of the math, but I see a greater problem of gender inequality, than racial inequality, at the following tables:

Tables 4a and 4b regarding the number of detentions incurred at WHS - by race and gender - for the 2011 and 2012 cohorts (fFigure 1 - % of Students with +10 Detentions bears out my point) (pages 47 and 48 of the study)

Tables 5a and 5b regarding the number of suspensions incurred at WHS - by race and gender - for the 2011 and 2012 cohorts (fFigure 2 - % of Students with at least 1 suspension bears out my point) (pages 49 and 50 of the study)

Tables 7a and 7b (Grade 9),  8a and 8b (Grade 10), 9a and 9b (Grade 11), and 10a and 10b (Grade 12), regarding track placement - by race and gender - for the 2011 and 2012 cohorts  (pages 68 through 71 of the study)  (the trends noted for grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 bears out my point, pages 54 and 55 of the study)

So why does the MJLU EER report focus on racial inequalities, when it has noted a greater level of inequality by gender?  Is it because gender inequality engenders (yes, pun intended) less of an opportunity for publication?

So now lets go back to how the MJLU report begins:  Page 7 of the MJLU report begins with what must be Marlon James' favorite quotation, "The same educational process which inspires and stimulates [the White student] with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worthwhile, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the [Black student] by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.   Carter G. Woodson, 1933."  ........... At page 24, he states, "If not redressed, neither learning nor teaching in Windsor High School will spark the innate genius in every learner, and the Districts' new mission will conform more closely to Woodson's prophetic words:"  So substitute Female for White and Male for Black.  So the educational process that inspires and stimulates female students depresses and crushes male students?


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