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Why boys fail : saving our sons from an educational system that's leaving them behind / Richard Whitmire

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : AMACOM, 2012Description: xiv, 239 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780814420171
  • 0814420176
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Contents:
Discovering the problem -- The reason for the boy troubles : faltering literacy skills -- The likely causes of the reading lapses -- The writing failures -- The blame game: what gets blamed (unfairly) for the gender gaps -- Solutions: what works for boys? -- Impediments to a solution: the ideological stalemate -- The international story: Australians struggle with the boy troubles -- Why these gender gaps matter -- Actions that need to be taken
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Open Shelf Open Shelf UMPLIB PEKAN LB1065 .W45 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0000067009

Includes bibliographical references and index

Discovering the problem -- The reason for the boy troubles : faltering literacy skills -- The likely causes of the reading lapses -- The writing failures -- The blame game: what gets blamed (unfairly) for the gender gaps -- Solutions: what works for boys? -- Impediments to a solution: the ideological stalemate -- The international story: Australians struggle with the boy troubles -- Why these gender gaps matter -- Actions that need to be taken

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