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The Minds Of Boys: Saving Our Sons From Falling Behind in School and Life
by Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens
Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint, September 2005
ISBN: 0-7879-7761-6Boys receive up to 70% of the Ds and Fs given all students in the United States; they create ninety percent of all classroom discipline problems; eighty percent of all high school dropouts are male; and young men currently make up just over forty percent of the college population. Is there a crisis with our boys? Or is there a crisis with an educational system that is having difficulty teaching them?
Michael Gurian has devoted the last twenty years to examining the issues related to our children and education – how their brains work and what theories and practices have positive (and negative) effects on the way they learn and succeed. In this new book, The Minds Of Boys, Gurian and educator Kathy Stevens reveal the reasons boys today are having more difficulty learning than girls, and offer proven strategies for parents and educators in order to help them better teach and empower young males.
In The Minds Of Boys, Gurian and Stevens draw on social philosophy, neuro-biology, case studies, and their own experiences in the field, to explore how boys' brains develop, function, and learn. From the earliest bonding between babies and parents, to the speed at which memory and verbal centers develop, gender plays a role at each stage of life. Boys have specific learning needs, and specific emotional and intellectual patterns by which they seek life-success. Who a boy is, from the inside out, affects how he relates to parents and teachers.
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