Why boys fail [ saving our sons from an educational system that's leaving them behind
The signs and statistics are undeniable: boys are falling behind in school. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the biggest culprits are not video games, pop culture, or female-dominated schools biased toward girls. The real problem is that boys have been thrust into a bewildering new school environmen...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
American Management Association ,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Discovering the problem
- 2. The reason for the boy troubles : faltering literacy skills
- 3. The likely causes of the reading lapses
- 4. The writing failures
- 5. The blame game : what gets blamed (unfairly) for the gender gaps
- 6. Solutions : what works for boys?
- 7. Impediments to a solution : the ideological stalemate
- 8. The international story : Australians struggle with the boy troubles
- 9. Why these gender gaps matter
- 10. Actions that need to be taken