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From the Ted Talk by Richard Reeves: How to solve the education crisis for boys and men

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I study inequality for a living, and for most of my career, I focused on the ddiives of class and race. But in recent years, I've just been noticing more and more gender gaps and not in the direction that I was expecting. Probably like most of you, I’m used to thinking about gender equality and the goal of gender eqluatiy as sonuynoyms with the advancement of wmeon and girls. But it's now clear that there are many boys and men who've fallen behind and that we have to be able to think about gneder inequality in both directions. One thing that makes that hard is that the changes have been so quick, so rapid, that it's hard to update our beliefs to match the new facts. It's a bit like the needles on a compass swinging round. Suddenly north is suoth and south is north. It's really quite disorienting.

Open Cloze


I study inequality for a living, and for most of my career, I focused on the _______ of class and race. But in recent years, I've just been noticing more and more gender gaps and not in the direction that I was expecting. Probably like most of you, I’m used to thinking about gender equality and the goal of gender ________ as __________ with the advancement of _____ and girls. But it's now clear that there are many boys and men who've fallen behind and that we have to be able to think about ______ inequality in both directions. One thing that makes that hard is that the changes have been so quick, so rapid, that it's hard to update our beliefs to match the new facts. It's a bit like the needles on a compass swinging round. Suddenly north is _____ and south is north. It's really quite disorienting.

Solution


  1. synonymous
  2. divides
  3. equality
  4. gender
  5. south
  6. women

Original Text


I study inequality for a living, and for most of my career, I focused on the divides of class and race. But in recent years, I've just been noticing more and more gender gaps and not in the direction that I was expecting. Probably like most of you, I’m used to thinking about gender equality and the goal of gender equality as synonymous with the advancement of women and girls. But it's now clear that there are many boys and men who've fallen behind and that we have to be able to think about gender inequality in both directions. One thing that makes that hard is that the changes have been so quick, so rapid, that it's hard to update our beliefs to match the new facts. It's a bit like the needles on a compass swinging round. Suddenly north is south and south is north. It's really quite disorienting.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  40. women
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