MORE ON GENDER AND EDUCATION:

First lady Laura Bush and a growing number of physicians, educators and psychologists say Americans need to wake up and see that boys lag far behind girls in school, and then demand that something be done.

Mrs. Bush, mother of two grown daughters, speaks at conferences and in interviews about the declining status of boys in today’s learning environment. She has charged that boys are being overlooked.

“I think we need to pay more attention to boys. I think we’ve paid a lot of attention to girls for the last 30 years … but we have actually neglected boys,” Mrs. Bush told Parade magazine early last year.

William Pollack, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, agrees.

(Via PoliPundit). Related thoughts on higher education, here.

UPDATE: Are boys just “defective girls?”