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struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more
often than girls; in elementary school, they’re diagnosed with
learning disorders four times as often. By eighth grade huge
numbers are reading below basic level. And by high school, they’re
heavily outnumbered in AP classes and, save for the realm of
athletics, show indifference to most extra?curricular activities.
Perhaps most alarmingly, boys now account for less than 43 percent
of those enrolled in college, and the gap widens every
semester!
The imbalance in higher education isn’t just a “boy problem,”
though. Boys’ decreasing college attendance is bad news for girls,
too, because ad?missions officers seeking balanced student bodies
pass over girls in favor of boys. The growing gender imbalance in
education portends massive shifts for the next generation: how much
they make and whom they marry.
Interviewing hundreds of parents, kids, teachers, and experts,
award-winning journalist Peg Tyre drills below the eye-catching
statistics to examine how the educational system is failing our
sons. She explores the convergence of culprits, from the emphasis
on high-stress academics in preschool and kindergarten, when most
boys just can’t tolerate sitting still, to the outright banning of
recess, from the demands of No Child Left Behind, with its rigid
emphasis on test-taking, to the boy-unfriendly modern curriculum
with its focus on writing about “feelings” and its purging of
“high-action” reading material, from the rise of video gaming and
schools’ unease with technology to the lack of male teachers as
role models.
But this passionate, clearheaded book isn’t an exercise in
finger-pointing. Tyre, the mother of two sons, offers notes from
the front lines—the testimony of teachers and other school
officials who are trying new techniques to motivate boys to learn
again, one classroom at a time. The Trouble with Boys gives
parents, educators, and anyone concerned about the state of
education a manifesto for change—one we must undertake right away
lest school be-come, for millions of boys, unalterably a “girl
thing.”
From the Hardcover edition.
“Striking … Tyre presents years of research and reporting from
schools around the country and arrives at a gut-punch of a
conclusion: Education in the United States is not geared to boys
… Tyre has the numbers, studies and interviews to back it
up.”
—WashingtonPost.com
“Boys have their troubles and The Trouble with Boys so
sensitively reveals them. Parents, teachers and others of us who
work with kids will do so more effectively having read this vital
book. Boys everywhere will be the fortunate beneficiaries of Peg
Tyre’s insights and suggestions.”
—Mel Levine, M.D. author of the #1 New York Times bestseller A
Mind at a Time
“A riveting, deeply thoughtful and encouraging book that leads the
way to embracing the best in our boys.”
—Louann
Brizendine, author of the national bestseller The Female
Brain and the forthcoming The Male Brain
“Every once in a while a book comes along that offers us an
opportunity to change the way we look at something we thought we
understood. The Trouble With Boys offers just such an
opportunity. It combines meticulous documentation with eloquent
first person accounts in a way that good teachers know is the best
way to present challenging ideas responsibly and
persuasively.”
—James Garbarino, PhD, author of Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn
Violent and How We Can Save Them
“The Trouble with Boys is a rarity–a page-turner about
teaching and learning. It does a brilliant job
of demonstrating the mismatch between what many boys need and
what education, from preschool through college, gives them. Peg
Tyre is a wise and engaging guide on everything from what’s going
on in classrooms to the impact of video games and the findings of
cutting-edge neuroscience. Her nuanced treatment of the plusses and
minuses of single-sex education as well as her critique of faddish
brain-based education are especially eye-opening. This is a book
for all parents, whether they’re raising girls or boys, as well as
for everyone who cares about how we’re educating our kids–which
ought to be all of us.”
—David Kirp, Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy,
UC-Berkeley
“A new and insightful view of why boys are turning off from school
and what parents and educators can do to bring them back…Brims with
practical ideas as well as a sophisticated understanding of why
boys have become the new underdogs from preschool through
college.”
—Judith Kleinfeld, Professor of Psychology and Director, Boys
Project, University of Alaska Fairbanks
“A clear-eyed, wide ranging, deeply thoughtful book about what’s
going on with boys . . . and why we should care. This is the book
about boys that could change our world.”
—Jon Scieszka, Library of Congress-appointed “Ambassador for
Children’s Literature,” and author of numerous bestsellers and
award winners including “The Time Warp Trio” books, The Stinky
Cheese Man and Math Curse
“A terrific book, solidly documented…Should be helpful to parents
and teachers who need to understand why boys are falling behind and
do something about it.”
—Diane Ravitch, Professor, New York University’s Steinhardt School
of Education, and author of Left Back: A Century of Battles Over
School Reform
“Passionate, powerful and persuasive, Peg Tyre’s beautifully
researched book, The Trouble withBoys offers the reader a
compelling explanation for why boys are not being served
well by America’s schools. I recommend this book to any
mother who is confused or worried by her son’s
struggles in the classroom. What you learn here will help you
to guide your son’s education. I suspect that teachers
may feel that Peg Tyre has given voice to their
deepest doubts about the things we make boys endure in school.
I urge all educators to read The Trouble with Boys.
You won’t teach boys in the same way once you’ve finished
it.”
—Michael Thompson, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller
Raising Cain: Protecting The Emotional Life of Boys
From the Hardcover edition.
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