Analysis Of Disappearing Act By Michael Gurian

The article I have chosen to read was Disappearing Act by Michael Gurian. This article specifically focused on how the male attendance at universities and higher learning institutions has changed dramatically over the years. For example, up until the late 1800’s women were not able to further their education. Perhaps the author wrote this article because he wanted to bring it to the audience’s attention about how the drop in male attendance has been increasing over the past couple years. But in order to get a better understanding we will first discuss issues that can be seen from the early school years, then we will look at what the universities and institutes were like then and finally, we will see what the universities and institutes look …show more content…
To begin, as stated in Gurian’s article entitled Disappearing Act “In a class room of 30 kids, about five boys will begin to fail in the first few years of pre-school and elementary school” (Gurian 1). Is it proven that the first five years of life are the most fundamental years of their life and their brain is growing at rapid rates. Although the first three years of a child’s life are the most critical due to the fact that their brain is shaping, developing and organizing information. Not only that but, I work at a daycare that offers both an after school program for children in elementary school from kindergarten until age 13 and a preschool and infant is offered as well. I predominantly work with preschool and as a center we ask parents when they enroll their children to our center if we suspect learning issues or have concerns about their child’s learning abilities. That we will first talk to the parents and then if they want to get their child tested as a center we’re only able to give them the materials and phone numbers in order to reach out for professional help. However, as a center we are able to test children biased off LPS curriculum to see if they’re ready for kindergarten or to move up to the next classroom. But studies have proven that parents that are helping their children prepare for school are more likely to succeed. “Many families are barely involved in their …show more content…
Gurian also states, “Where men once dominated the now make up no more than 43% of students at American institutes of higher learning, according to a 2003 statistic” (1). I have been attending Southeast Community College for a year now and I have noticed in general that in most of my classes, there’s more girl’s than boy’s. Although I am a declared student in the early childhood program and it’s a girl dominate program I have had a handful of males even in those classes but the girls are still are more present than the guys. In addition, from my graduating class of 51 all of us graduated with our high school diplomas but when it came time to decide if we were moving on everyone but two students decided to go onto a higher form of learning. However, a year later, I met up with my class and 15 of them are no longer attending college. Four of them went into the military, nine males said ‘college isn’t for me’, and two of them got married and moved with their significant other and decided to not go back to