Why Boys Fail
This blog was written by Richard Whitmire, a former editorial writer at USA Today and past board president of the National Education Writers Association, and a frequent opinion commentator on national education issues. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: boys.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
School Suspensions (or worse)
As this Education Week discloses, six out of ten Texas seniors have been suspended (or worse). Doesn't disclose the gender ratio, but we already know that most of those are boys.
Federal
Opinion
India Headed the Same Direction as China
Aborting female fetuses triggers a population gender gap, which leads to a marriageable mate gap, which in turn leads to a restive male population that presents a possible state security problems (as the Chinese have discovered).
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
Happy With Single-Sex in Tampa
That's good news, but anecdotal reporting of test scores isn't the same as real research.
Science
Opinion
Best-Paid Majors Avoided by Women
Women and minorities tend to shun the majors that lead to the best paying jobs, which lies at the heart of the overall gender pay gap (not the true apples to apples issue, where male/female engineers hold the exact same position but are paid differently.)
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
'Gender Matters' Available
Another newsy bulletin from David Chadwell in South Carolina, home to the nation's most ambitious single-gender classroom experiment.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Feminization of Psychology
This trend was reported in my book. I'm skeptical about the reasons for the shift cited here. A lot of this is nothing more complicated than women dominating higher education and psychology being a favored major among women.
Education
Opinion
Long-Lasting Marriages on the Rise
...Even as the marriage rate declines. Why? Because the better educated are marrying the better educated.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
Here's a Program with Promise
First Book, profiled in the New York Times.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
The 100-page Challenge
British boys lack the "stamina" to read beyond the 100th page, according to this research. Based on my interviewing in this country, that's impressive. Many boys here would never think of engaging a book that far.