Sex Discrimination and Cerebral Bias: Implications for the Reading Curriculum.

Keenan, Donna; Smith, Michael

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ERIC Number: EJ277951

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Publication Date: 1983

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Sex Discrimination and Cerebral Bias: Implications for the Reading Curriculum.

Keenan, Donna; Smith, Michael

Reading Improvement, v20 n1 p50-53 Spr 1983

Reviews research supporting the concept that girls usually outperform boys on tasks requiring verbal skills and that boys outperform girls on tasks using visual and spatial skills. Offers an explanation for this situation based on left brain/right brain research. Concludes that the curriculum in American schools is clearly left-brain biased. (FL)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bias, Cerebral Dominance, Curriculum, Educational Theories, Females, Males, Reading Failure, Reading Instruction, Sex Differences, Sex Discrimination

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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