What about the boys?

The growing achievement gap between boys and girls has been the subject of numerous research studies, scholarly articles and books over the past several years. How to address this problem has become a topic of interest and debate among teachers, parents and students.

Time magazine recently featured an article on this topic titled "School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys." The story gives illustrations of rules and policies that bump up against boy behavior that's altogether normal and innocuous. The most outrageous example: the little boy, age 7, who was suspended from his Maryland school for nibbling a strawberry Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun.  (more...)

What about the boys?