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September 13, 2013

How to Make School Better for Boys

Start by acknowledging that boys are languishing while girls are succeeding.

As the United States moves toward a knowledge-based economy, school achievement has become the cornerstone of lifelong success.

Women are adapting; men are not.

Yet the education establishment and federal government are, with some notable exceptions, looking the other way.

Boys in all ethnic groups and social classes are far less likely than their sisters to feel connected to school, to earn good grades, or to have high academic aspirations...

Kirtland Peterson

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