One takeaway from this TED Talk is that Title IX, rather than balancing the playing field for women, tilted it against men. Are there any clear solutions?
When there’s $100 for sports, and $100 has traditionally gone to men’s sports, and then they change is so $90 goes to men’s sports and $10 goes to women’s sports, some men, with overinflated self importance, and no interest in fairness, could see that as “the playing field being tilted against men” sure. lol.
The video is not about sports, it’s about the achievement gap in k-12 education in boys, particularly in social or economically disadvantaged classes.
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I think your Title IX comment is a misinterpretation of the video. He never said Title IX is responsible for the achievement gap, and cautioned against policies that disadvantage girls. He used Title IX as an example to show that the academic achievement gap in favor of boys, that Title IX was attempting to solve, is smaller than the current academic gap in favor of girls (at least by one measure); therefore systemic action is necessary.
But I found this video did a good job at clearly stating the crisis we have for boys, particularly black boys in America. And the idea of pushing for more male teachers, particularly English teachers, seems like good policy.
Actually it’s a genuine question asked in response to the video, not a summary of it.
