In the present climate, educators who wish to help boys face obstacles. Prince George's County, Md., on the outskirts of Washington, includes several poor, mostly black public schools. Since 1991, approximately 40 young men have been meeting two weekends a month with a group of professional men for tutoring and mentoring. Though American schoolboys are lagging behind girls, this is not recognized as a problem and its national implications are not discussed. We must repudiate the partisanship and gender advocacy that have beclouded the issues surrounding children and make every effort to bring balance, fairness, and objective information into an urgently needed analysis of gender differentials in education.
American schoolboys appear to be seriously at risk.
Their plight will not be effectively addressed until educators, journalists, and politicians begin to challenge the myth of the incredible shrinking girl. How Women Have Betrayed Women . She is writing a book on boys.