Peg Tyre spent seven years covering social trends and education at Newsweek. Her forthcoming book The Trouble With Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School and What Parents and Educators Must Do, will be published by Crown in September. She is currently a non-resident fellow at the Education Sector, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, D.C.

Blog Entries by Peg Tyre

Who Says the Boy Crisis Is Over?

Posted May 29, 2008 | 04:50 PM (EST)


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...

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