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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: boys.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
The Oregon Story
Oregon may offer some lessons for other rural areas where educators are trying to boost the college-going rate.
Education
Opinion
China: Operational Sex Ratio in Action
Want to study the impact of a government birth policy that has produced 37 million more men than women? Try China. An interesting new website, All Girls Allowed, has gathered the data on the impact.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
And Where Are the Sons of Plumbers?
Paucity of low-income students at elite colleges profiled at the Chronicle. (password protested). Truth is, those colleges are better at attracting low-income minorities than they are drawing in sons and daughters of the working class.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Finally, the Feds Push for Gender Equity
About time, right? With boys graduating from high school at far lower rates, drawing most of the suspension/expulsion actions, earning lower GPA's, and wandering through life doped up on ADHD medicine, its about time the federal government stepped in to help out.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Working Class White Boys ... Again
Why is this issue only written about abroad? The gaps are just as stark in this country.
Science
Opinion
The Push for Female Professors at MIT
Good story in the Times about boosting the number of women there. Good lessons for other universities, keeping in mind that universities such as MIT can skim off the top.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
Jack Jennings Lays It All Out
The president and CEO of the Center on Education Policy says it all here. If we don't boost reading and writing skills of boys, we're looking at serious economic consequences.
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
Another News Flash: New Group to Promote Co-Ed Education
Check out the American Council on CoEducational Schooling, where you'll find the latest arguments on why you should keep your child in a co-ed school setting. The director of communications is Lise Eliot, author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain, someone who frequently clashes with Leonard Sax from the National Association for Single Sex Public Education.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
The Muddled Politics of Male Gender Preferences
As Richard Kahlenberg points out in the Chronicle, the issue of colleges reaching deeper into their applicant pools to draw in male candidates muddies the political waters. The groups you would expect to complain the loudest about discrimination against women -- national feminist groups and the American Association of University Women -- are mute.