For high school teachers these are enigmatic times. Teachers want to prepare students for life in the real world, but balk at teaching them the truth of that world. The recent publication of a corrected "Huckleberry Finn," which replaced the word nigger with slave, touched a nerve. Is the point to safeguard the innocent or to make us feel we are…

Research indicates that the achievement difference favoring girls over boys typically found in American schools results from an interaction between the role of the student and the sex role expectations applied to boys and girls in our society. Teachers, both male and female, play a well-defined teacher role which complements the student role as…