Educating Boys
Jay Mathews makes a candid confession at Class Struggle: He didn’t think there there was much to the claim that schools are short-changing boys, but reading Richard Whitmire’s new book changed his mind. Mathews is a breath of fresh air compared to Wellesley College’s Susan McGee Bailey, who argues stubbornly that this is not a problem. All this in the face of Whitmire’s impressive pile of evidence.
