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Boys Adriftby Leonard Sax
Basic Books 2009; US$ 16.99Family physician, psychologist, and acclaimed author of Why Gender Matters reveals the truth about what’s driving the decline of American boysand what we can do about it. more...
Understanding the Boysby John Head
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 47.50Attention is given to general aspects of learning and assessment before examining the response of boys to specific subjects within the curriculum. Personal, social and health education concerns are addressed. more...
Improving School Attendanceby Eric Blyth; Judith Milner
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 57.95This book will be the first in several years concerned with non-attendance. Previously unpublished material in the book will provide a multi-disciplinary evaluation of practice at LEA, whole school and individual levels. more...
Boys and Schooling in the Early Yearsby Paul Connolly
RoutledgeFalmer 2004; US$ 52.95This book draws upon original research to examine the specific issues affecting boys and education in the first three years of schooling, and uses this research as a basis from which to explore the implications for teachers and early years workers. more...
Boys and Literacyby Trisha Maynard
RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 47.50Trisha Maynard reports the findings of a case study of a primary school whose staff wanted to explore and improve boys' attitudes towards and attainment in literacy, and in particular their difficulties with writing. more...
The Minds of Boysby Michael Gurian; Kathy Stevens
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005; US$ 15.95Michael Gurian's blockbuster bestseller The Wonder of Boys is the bible for mothers, fathers, and educators on how to understand and raise boys. It has sold over 400,000 copies, been translated into 17 languages, and sells over 25,000 every year, which is more than any other book on boys in history. To follow up on this first book, which launched the boy's movement, he has now written this revolutionary new book which confronts what he and a lot of other parents and teachers in this country truly believe to be a "boy's crisis". Here are the facts: Boys today are simply not learning as well as girls Boys receive 70% of the Ds and Fs given all students Boys cause 90% of classroom discipline problems 80% of all high school dropouts are... more...
Boys in school and societyby John Cresswell; Ken Rowe; Graeme Withers
Australian Council for Educational Research 2002; US$ 14.95In the past decade there has been a growing perception in Australia that girls have become more successful pursuing their educational goals than boys ? especially in educational outcomes relating to literacy. In addition there is evidence from a range of studies that boys regard their school experience less favourably than girls and are less strongly engaged in the work of schools. This paper focuses on students? achievement and attitudes to school, and the influences that shape different outcomes for boys and girls. Beyond school, a smaller proportion of boys than girls progress to higher education, although a larger proportion of boys participate in vocational education and training programs. Consideration is also given to the broader... more...
So What's A Boy?by Wayne Martino
McGraw-Hill Education 2003; US$ 47.98Focuses on the impact and effects of masculinities on the lives of boys at school. Through interviews with boys from diverse backgrounds, this book explores the various ways in which boys define and negotiate their masculinities at school. It offers recommendations and indicates directions for working with boys in school. more...
The Trouble with Boysby Peg Tyre
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 13.99From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to 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 extracurricular 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,... more...
The Problem with Boys' Educationby Wayne Martino; Michael D. Kehler; Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 43.95The Problem with Boys' Education: Beyond the Backlash offers an illuminating analysis of the theories, politics and realities of boys' education around the world, providing an insightful and often disturbing account of various educational systems' successes and failings in fostering intellectual and social growth in male students. more...









