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    Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That’s Leaving Them Behind

    • Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That’s Leaving Them Behind

    • By: Richard Whitmire

    • Publisher: AMACOM

    • Pub. Date:

    • Print ISBN-13: 978-0-814-42017-1

    • E-Book ISBN-13: 978-0-814-42036-2

    • Pages in Print Edition: 256

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    Overview

    The signs and statistics are undeniable: boys are falling behind in school.

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    Table of Contents

     

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    Copyright

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    Acknowledgments

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    Introduction to the Paperback Edition

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    1 Discovering the Problem
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    THE WILMETTE DISCOVERY

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    IS WILMETTE ALONE?

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    THE CLUE EVERYONE MISSED: THE NINTH GRADE "BULGES"

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    THE ACTUAL CAUSES OF THE PROBLEM EMERGE

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    2 The Reason for the Boy Troubles: Faltering Literacy Skills
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    COLLEGE HAS BECOME THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL

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    EROSION OF VERBAL SKILLS IS THE KEY

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    HOW BAD IS IT OUT THERE?

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    WHY ISN'T ANYONE SOUNDING THE ALARM?

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    3 The Likely Causes of the Reading Lapses
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    LACK OF PHONICS

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    POOR TEACHER EDUCATION

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    LACK OF READING INSTRUCTION IN THE UPPER GRADES

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    INATTENTION TO ROLE MODEL ISSUES

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    LACK OF BOY BOOKS

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    PUSHING LITERACY ON BOYS TOO SOON

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    FAILURE TO TEACH READING PROPERLY

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    4 The Writing Failures
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    ANSWERS FROM A WRITING COACH: RALPH FLETCHER

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    BUT WHAT ABOUT ONLINE READING AND WRITING?

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    5 The Blame Game: What Gets Blamed (Unfairly) for the Gender Gaps
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    MY BOY IS FOREVER LOST TO VIDEO GAMES!

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    IT'S A LACK OF MALE TEACHERS

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    IT'S (ONLY) THE BLACK BOYS

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    IT'S A MEDICAL PROBLEM
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    Autism

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    ADHD

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    IT'S THAT HOMEWORK HELPS GIRLS, HURTS BOYS

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    IT'S THAT FEMINIZED CLASSROOMS TURN OFF BOYS

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    IT'S THAT TOO MUCH TESTING HURTS BOYS

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    IT'S THE TOXIC CULTURE

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    IT'S THE BOY CODE MORPHING INTO THE GUY CODE

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    6 Solutions: What Works for Boys?

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    JUAN'S STORY
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    Frankford Elementary, Frankford, Delaware

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    The History Behind Frankford's Success

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    Taking Mentoring to a New Level

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    THE SINGLE-SEX OPTIONS
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    Excellence Boys Charter School of Bedford-Stuyvesant

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    The Origins of Excellence

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    How This Plays Out for Daniel

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    Results?

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    KIPP DC: KEY Academy, Washington, D.C.

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    RETURN VISIT, MARCH 2007

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    CONCLUSION: WHAT THESE SCHOOLS HAVE THAT WORKS FOR BOYS

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    7 Impediments to a Solution: The Ideological Stalemate
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    IS THERE A LOGICAL ARGUMENT THAT BOYS AREN'T IN TROUBLE?

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    HOW THIS POLITICAL STALEMATE PLAYS OUT LOCALLY: A STORY FROM MAINE

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    8 The International Story: Australians Struggle with the Boy Troubles
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    TREVOR BARMAN'S STORY: BLUE MOUNTAINS GRAMMAR SCHOOL, WENTWORTH FALLS

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    DO THESE REFORMS HAVE A PAYOFF?

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    BEYOND AUSTRALIA: RAPID CHANGE AHEAD

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    9 Why These Gender Gaps Matter
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    SOME WORKPLACES HAVE ALREADY CHANGED

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    BEYOND NEWSROOMS

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    THE GENDER PAY GAP

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    A RISE IN CAMPUS FRICTIONS

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    MARRIAGEABLE MATES

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    FAILURE TO LAUNCH

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    10 Actions That Need to Be Taken
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    LAUNCH AN AUSTRALIAN-STYLE FEDERAL INQUIRY (AND BASE THE RATIONALE ON GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS)

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    TURN BOYS INTO EARLY READERS

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    VOLUNTEER FOR RESEARCH-BASED TUTORING PROGRAMS

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    INTENSIFY LITERACY INSTRUCTION IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL

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    MAKE HIGH SCHOOL MORE RELEVANT
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    High Tech High

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    Career Academies

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    TEACH BOYS AND GIRLS SEPARATELY? (MAYBE)

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    REVAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGES

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    KEEP GIVING GUYS BREAKS IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS . . . FOR JUST A LITTLE LONGER

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    EXPERIMENT MORE WITH K­12 READING PROGRAMS
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    George Lisby Elementary, Aberdeen, Maryland

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    HELP MEN ALREADY AT COLLEGES

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    COLLECT THE NUMBERS ON BOYS! (AND USE THE NUMBERS FOR SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY)

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    STRIKE A DEAL WITH NATIONAL FEMINIST LEADERS

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    Appendix: The Facts About Boys

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    Notes

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    Index
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