The boy problem : educating boys in urban America, 1870-1970 /
Grant, Julia,1953-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Schooling the "Dangerous Classes": Reforming Boys in Nineteenth-Century America -- 2. The Nature of Boy Nature: Education and Recreation for Masculinity --- 3. The Perils of Public Education: Truants, Underachievers, and School Leavers -- 4. Bad or Backward?: Gender and Genesis of Special Education -- 5. "The Boys' Own Story": Masculinity, Peer Culture, and Delinquency -- 6. Black Boys and Native Sons: Race, Delinquency, and Schooling in the Urban North.
Boys
City children
Urban schools
Academic achievement