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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: boys.
Education
Opinion
Marriage Experts by the Dozen
The New York Times does a service by collecting short essays from the nation's top marriage experts on the "marriageable mate" dilemma: How are we adjusting to the shifting economic and education relationships between men and women?
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
New Report from College Board on Minority Males
This report from the College Board was issued as part of a Capitol Hill panel of experts on the plight of minority males.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Two Reports from Judith Kleinfeld
A pair of studies of University of Alaska professor Judith Kleinfeld are available at the top of the Boys Project website.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Gender Gaps Leveling Off
That's the good news from the American Council on Education's Gender Equity in Higher Education report (available for purchase through ACE) but written about in today's Inside Higher Education and USA Today.
Education
Opinion
Score: LAT 1; NYT, 0
Today's editorial in the L.A. Times examines the college gender gaps, concludes that admitting slightly less qualified males is justified and then moves on to the heart of the matter: Why is this happening?
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
The Liberals' Explanation for the Boy Troubles
For years now, conservatives have blamed feminized classrooms for boys falling behind. Less attention gets paid to what liberals blame (actually, if you're the AAWU or NOW you say: What boy troubles?).
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Getting the Marriageable Mate Story Right
So many missed the point of yesterday's Pew study about the shifting economic relationships between men and women. Many TV producers and headline writers depicted men as somehow finding rich women to marry ...diamonds are now a man's best friend. Cute, but wrong.
Education
Opinion
The Most Potent Impact of the Boy Troubles: Marriageable Mate Dilemma
I started my research looking at why boys fall behind in school, but it didn't take long for me to arrive at the bottom line of what all this means. Yes, the economy will suffer some as some talented men are left behind, but the impact felt by most will be what sociologists call the "marriageable mate" dilemma. That's the focus of a Pew report released today and fleshed out nicely by The New York Times.
Education
Opinion
Taking Issue With Rocker Ted Nugent
Nugent has one idea of what it takes for men to survive, here in the Washington Times. I have another. Successfully navigating school, I argue, is more urgent than surviving in the woods.
Education
Opinion
You Decide: Does Your Blogger Have a Radio Face?
GMA nicely rolled the dice and put me on this morning. Against all odds I didn't freeze. They even built a nice web page on the issue. Let's hope this issue can get some national traction. The audience I'm looking for resides in the U.S. Department of Education: Isn't it time to launch an Australian-style investigation into the gender gaps?
Education
Opinion
Education Next Takes On the Gender Gaps
I debate Susan McGee Bailey, the author of the 1992 paper from AAUW arguing that schools are shortchanging girls (not boys). That's the study that got me started on Why Boys Fail. I wrote that up uncritically -- by hindsight, big mistake.
Education
Opinion
Your Blogger On ABC's Good Morning America
In theory, that happens today around 8:30 a.m. EST. We'll see...could get bumped. I'm here in New York doing book promotions. Yesterday I chatted on and off for an hour with Gil Gross from the San Francisco powerhouse station KGO.
Education
Opinion
Women, Not Men, Taking ESL Courses
Understandable, but still interesting. Actually, what's striking about the coverage of the gender issues by womens enews is its evenhandedness. Refreshing.