Boys Are Falling Behind

I just read an interesting article on msnbc this morning and thought I'd share it with you. The article addresses how boys have been falling behind in school, in part because of the adjustments that have been made over the past 20-30 years to get girls caught up.

Here is a small quote from the article

By almost every benchmark, boys across the nation and in every demographic group are falling behind. In elementary school, boys are two times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with learning disabilities and twice as likely to be placed in special-education classes. High-school boys are losing ground to girls on standardized writing tests. The number of boys who said they didn't like school rose 71 percent between 1980 and 2001, according to a University of Michigan study. Nowhere is the shift more evident than on college campuses. Thirty years ago men represented 58 percent of the undergraduate student body. Now they're a minority at 44 percent. This widening achievement gap, says Margaret Spellings, U.S. secretary of Education, "has profound implications for the economy, society, families and democracy."

You can read the entire article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10965522/site/Newsweek/

Susanne
Founder of Kinderinfo.com