Huffington Post: Who Says the Boy Crisis Is Over?

Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2008-05-30 23:31

Article here. Excerpt:

"The Boy Crisis in education, if there ever was one, is over. Or so says a report issued last week by the powerful and influential American Association of University Women. For the last 18 months, I've criss-crossed the country, talking to parents, teachers, and policymakers for a book I'm writing about boys and schools. What is abundantly clear is that there's large and growing group of people who just aren't buying the AAUW's position and that they're not who you might think they'd be. Some of the very same (mostly female) teachers and librarians who helped raise up the achievement of girls over the last fifteen years are now struggling to find ways to get boys re-engaged with learning. And there's a growing constituency of smart, empowered, and increasingly vocal women -- mothers of school-aged boys -- who are intensely concerned about what's happening to their sons in school."

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This was not a bad article, at least as far as academics and boys are concerned. The only serious problem that I had with it, was how it perpetuates the same wage gap myth. Clearly the author hasn't read Warren Farrel.

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Submitted by Belgorod on Sun, 2008-06-01 02:15

From "The War Against Boys":

"The [AAUW's] executive director, Janice Weinman, [gave] a candid explanation for the persistent neglect of boys' problems: "We're the American Association of University Women," she said, "and our mission is to look at education for girls and women." That would be fair enough had the girl partisans not relentlessly promoted the idea that boys were unfairly advantaged while girls were neglected. The AAUW had not merely ignored boys' problem, it had dismissed them, coaching leaders at its 1997 Leadership Conference on how to deflect questions about boys' deficits and comparing those who questioned bias against girls to "Holocaust revisionists" in its newsletter.

(emphasis in original)

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Submitted by axolotl on Sun, 2008-06-01 03:42