The trouble with boys / Peg Tyre.
Tyre, Peg.
2008
LC1397 .T97 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
The trouble with boys / Peg Tyre.
Author
Tyre, Peg.
ISBN
9780307381286
0307381285
Publication Details
New York : Crown Publishers, c2008.
Language
English
Description
311 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
LC1397 .T97 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.8210973
Summary
From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. Perhaps most alarmingly, boys now account for less than 43 percent of those enrolled in college, and the gap widens every semester! The growing gender imbalance in education portends massive shifts for the next generation: how much they make and whom they marry. Interviewing parents, kids, teachers, and experts, journalist Peg Tyre drills below the statistics to examine how the educational system is failing our sons. But this passionate, clearheaded book isn't an exercise in finger-pointing. Tyre, the mother of two sons, offers the testimony of teachers and school officials who are trying new techniques to motivate boys to learn again, one classroom at a time. This book is a manifesto for change--one we must undertake right away lest school become, for millions of boys, unalterably a "girl thing."--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: The trouble with boys
Notes from the front : the Edina Experiment
The scope of the problem : it's not just your son
The doubters : why some parents (mistakenly) say boys are doing just fine
Preschool blues : the first signs of trouble
Notes from the front : fixing the school, not the boy
Kindergarten : the new first grade
Requiem for recess : yes, they need it, more than you think
Pay attention : your son, his teacher, and ADHD
Notes from the front : the Wilmette Solution
Good-bye, Mr. Chips : the vanishing male teacher
Boys and literacy : why Johnny can't (or won't) read
Thinking with a boy brain : what brain science tells us
(Video) games boys play : the world of electronic distraction
Single-sex schooling : could it be the answer?
Notes from the front : Project Earthquake
Smart boys who get bad grades : are schools biased against boys?
Boys alone : how we devalue what boys need
Notes from the front : learning to be a man
College : where the boys aren't
The future : telling the truth about boys.

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