The gender gap in college enrollment has been growing for decades and has broad implications for colleges and beyond: a loss of enrollment revenue, less viewpoint diversity on campus, and fewer men in jobs that\u00a0require some college education. Some academics want to make clear that just because women outnumber men in college it doesn\u2019t mean that gender-equity issues no longer remain.<\/p>\n
This collection of Chronicle<\/em> articles features news stories, analysis, advice, and opinion essays, including several articles that sounded a warning years ago. It also looks at how some colleges are trying to draw more men of all backgrounds \u2014 and help them succeed once they get there.<\/p>\n Section 1: Why Don\u2019t Men Go to College?<\/p>\n Section 2: How Can Colleges Draw More Men?<\/p>\n Section 3: Deconstructing the Gender Gap<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Don\u2019t get me started on the nanny state, the reverse sexism, the anti-feminism bullshit female empowerment. Don\u2019t get me started on the battle of the sexes, and don\u2019t get me started on the sheeple aspect of education, social work, and nonprofit work. Don\u2019t get me started, man.<\/p>\n I can go down a thousand rabbit holes or warrens, but the thing is I come back out, revitalized, smarter, and, sure more pissed off. This is the state of the world, under capitalism. A Belgium company in the USA and Canada is monopolizing on school transportation. No union shop, $19 an hour here in Lincoln county where home prices and gasoline and food are outrageous and where other districts might pay more per hour.<\/p>\n Again, it\u2019s a bunch of older folk, mostly women, driving buses at age 67, 71, 78. What the hell is that about?<\/p>\n I have also been a substitute teacher in this district, and I\u2019ve written about that too: \u201cTake Down this Blog, or Else!<\/a> No job interview, no job offer, targeting by city, county, state honchos, watched by the pigs, shadowed by all the sub humans.\u201d Of course, I was and still am mad as hell at my banishment teaching, and can\u2019t accept it, or take it. Even writing this will get me scrutinized by those overlords of the HR subhuman species who spend countless millions of dollars a year on software applications that do snazzy background checks, credit checks, employment checks, reference checks, drug checks, and of course, in my case, Google Scans\/Checks, looking for any anti-this or anti-that diatribes or even plain old inverted triangle journalism.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s scoot over to the issue of the failing male, the males in the womb, those just out of the womb, and then the developing baby, child, kid, teen and we end up with 355 million Americanos and a shit load of chronic illnesses for EVERYONE, including the poor child, babes in the woods. The top ten:<\/p>\n What are the 7 main types of learning disabilities? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that developmental disabilities occur among all ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups. Children from ages 3 through 17 frequently have one or more developmental disabilities, such as:<\/p>\n In particular, psychology professionals should study these seven learning disabilities:<\/strong><\/p>\n Related Disorders<\/p>\n So here we are at, now, in a society with so many epigentic, developmental, gestational, chromosomal and neuro disabilities. So many youth are faced with a lifetime of struggle, even before crawling, and then in pre-K and then K12, and then as adults. If this were a socially just society, there would be trillions spent on finding out the causes and effects and then the effects as new causes for new effects on the individual gestating, and what it is that makes this such a prevalent issue in our Western Society. Schools are warehouses, for sure, and the school to prison pipeline is not some goof-ball concept. We\u2019d be looking hard at the chemicals, the stressors, the mother and father and their own stressors. All the toxins in air, water, food, drugs, including EMFs, and just the lack of nutrition, the fatty liver disease in 1\/3 of folk, and the failing sperm counts in men since 1950, and, well, the discussion of who is that village that takes to raise a child.<\/p>\n Everything in capitalism is ANTI-health, ANTI-human, ANTI-Learning, ANTI-community engagement. More and more children, and yes, mostly boys, are monitored in the classroom, those prisons, and the effect or affect is that there is little significant learning and developing going on inside the school and their brains. They are a nerved up\/out or nervous wreck, and they are watched and graded and sent home with behavior reports.<\/p>\n Now is the time to pity the child. Our children, and of course, all those children hit with the wagers of war, the wagers of sanctions, the wagers of economic and health and food sanctions. Depleted uranium or lead in the pipes. All of those realities also tie into the flagging mental health, the growing pressures put upon mother, father, child, grandparents, the lot of them in education, et al<\/em>.<\/p>\n This is the sickness of America:<\/p>\n In solidarity with Cuba, leaders and activists of all Left and democratic parties of India welcomed Aleida Guevara in Surjeet Bhavan.<\/p>\n To a\u00a0packed hall, Aleida said that it is one thing to talk about an economic blockade and quite another to live under that blockade.<\/p>\n She narrated how no country was ready to even give easily available medicine for a five-year-old child only because of the fear of America. In spite of not being a milk producing country, Cuba supplies one litre milk daily for all children and the aged, by importing it from New Zealand which is expensive because of the high transportation costs.<\/p>\n They were forced to buy milk from far away New Zealand, as their northern neighbour, US is not ready to trade with Cuba. The sixty years of illegal and inhumane US blockade has taught Cuba to spread humanism through sending doctors to wherever they were in need. Cuba is just 90 kilometres away from the mighty imperialist super power US. Even then it can\u2019t be defeated since it believes in the scientific principle of people\u2019s unity and those who are united can never be defeated. \u201cEl pueblo unido, jamas sera vencido\u201d (The people united, shall always be victorious). She said Cuba took arms for peace and defending their motherland. She asserted that Cuba believes in standing up for equality against any kind of barbarism in the world. Thanking the people of India for always standing with Cuba, she said that the people of Cuba will always treasure this solidarity and value it immensely. (source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Milk, man, and the United Snakes of America is so so powerful, going after children far and wide. You know, Cuba never attacked the USA, never went to war, and alas, this is the power of the dirty capitalists, war mongers and some sick psychopaths. Medicines, medical equipment, air conditioners, food, and energy. This is the way of the rat, the USA RATON.<\/p>\n The entire psychiatry and psychology and sociology of oppression is what runs modern Western society. There are no right ways now to raise children, to support families, and to build community. It\u2019s all about the private sector sucking up as much as the public sector can regurgitate to this thieves. While the children suffer, and while the entire shooting match is toast as we in a culture of pollution and gestational crimes and constant bombardment of children with poisons —\u00a0 from those in the plastics, chicken nuggets, lawn sprays, all the off gassing, all those artificial flavors — find it harder and harder to survive all the death traps that we know this society is unleashing at an earlier and earlier age.<\/p>\n We are in an age of behavior adjustment, brainwashing, mind control, sinister Stockholm Syndrome, general anxiety disorders created by social media and generalized hatefulness from the legislators and two-bit politicians. Checked out or challenged just looking at a book, we are in the new normal of trillion$ for the pigs of war, for SWAT teams, for the opposition to beat us down, to implode the family, to eradicate the human and humane family. These kiddos come onto the bus with behavior plans, with their little classroom check slips for the parents to mull over at home.<\/p>\n Oh, what is enlightenment? \u201cBehavior charts and similar public shaming methods don\u2019t teach self-regulation. They mainly harm vulnerable learners<\/a>.” The following is pretty light weight compared to the scenes I have been enmeshed in as a substitute teacher in special education and blended classrooms. Believe me.<\/p>\n Mr. Hill stops reading aloud to his 4th grade students and turns to Anisa. \u201cAnisa, you\u2019re off task. Change your clip. I asked you once and you are still digging in your desk. Walk over and change it now.\u201d<\/p>\n Anisa stands and walks across the classroom. Several of her peers make condescending comments under their breath. Anisa moves her clip from green to yellow and returns to her desk and puts her head down. Her nonverbal behaviors indicate that she\u2019s angry, hurt, and frustrated.<\/p>\n A few minutes later, Josh raises his hand. Mr. Hill calls on him and Josh responds, \u201cAnisa is off task again.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Hill looks at Anisa and says, \u201cAgain? Please change your clip to red. One more problem and it will be another call home. You have to learn to pay attention.\u201d (Source: Tear Down Your Behavior Chart! Lee Ann Jung Dominique Smith)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read the book:\u00a0Pedagogy of the Oppressed<\/a><\/p>\n Freire\u00a0gives the term \u201cfreedom<\/strong>\u201d a specific meaning: it is the freedom to critically question and change the world. In other words, a person is free when they are able to understand and change their own conditions.<\/p>\n For\u00a0Freire,\u00a0education\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0oppression\u00a0<\/strong>are connected, since education can be used either as a tool for oppression or as a method\u00a0 of liberation from oppression. Freire distinguishes between a pedagogy (a way of practicing education) that serves oppressors, and one that helps oppressed people understand and change their society. According to Freire, \u201cfreedom\u201d (the\u00a0freedom to critically question<\/strong>\u00a0and change the world) requires people to gain a new understanding of how reality works. Changing the dominant understanding of\u00a0history\u00a0<\/strong>is a key part of this process. Freire sees education as useful not just for individual growth, but also for achieving social change<\/strong>. To expand on this point, he discusses social change as a necessary tool to achieve\u00a0freedom\u00a0and overthrow\u00a0oppression. Within Freire\u2019s framework, systems of oppression try to prevent radical social change so that they do not lose power.\u00a0Throughout\u00a0Pedagogy of the Oppressed,\u00a0<\/em>Freire\u00a0draws heavily on the theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels\u2014especially the concept of\u00a0dialectics<\/strong>. A \u201cdialectical\u201d way of thinking starts with a \u201cthesis\u201d (an initial idea or proposition) and an \u201cantithesis\u201d (an idea that opposes or contradicts the thesis), and the interaction of these two ideas creates a \u201csynthesis,\u201d or a new idea that reconciles the conflict between the two original ideas. 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