Why boys fail : saving our sons from an educational system that's leaving them behind / Richard Whitmire.

Originally published: 2010. WIth new introduction; original foreword by Michelle Rhee omitted from pbk. ed

Includes indexes.

Discovering the problem
The reason for the boy troubles: faltering literacy skills
The likely causes of the reading lapses
The writing failures
The blame game: what gets blamed (unfairly) for the gender gaps
Solutions: what works for boys?
Impediments to a solution: the ideological stalemate
The international story: Australians struggle with the boy troubles
Why these gender gaps matter
Actions that need to be taken

Boys are falling behind in school. The world has become more verbal; boys haven't. Even in their traditionally strong subjects of science and math, boys are hit at a young age with new educational approaches, stressing high-level reading and writing goals that they are developmentally unable to achieve. The gap between male and female achievement has reached the college level, where only 40 per cent of graduates next year will be male. This doesn't just mean fewer male doctors and lawyers, it also means fewer men in the careers that previously did not require post-high school degrees but do now. "Why Boys Fail" examines the roots and repercussions of this problem and spells out the educational, political, social and economic challenges we face as we work to end it