Whitmire, president of the National Educational Writers Association, presents evidence from a federal study released in 2003 showing that boys fall behind in school, not because of video games or female-dominated schools biased toward girls, but because schools demand high-level reading and writing skills before boys are capable of handling them. Case studies describe successful school programs such as intensive phonics instruction, ongoing reading instruction in the middle years, breaking the curriculum into manageable chunks to help organizationally challenged boys, and single-sex classrooms. An appendix explains facts about boys, learning, education, and related socioeconomic and gender factors in plain language. The book is for educators and parents.
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