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    The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men
    The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men
    The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men
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    The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men

    Written by Christina Hoff Sommers

    Narrated by Coleen Marlo

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    An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic-now more relevant than ever-argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs.

    Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation's schools. Americans responded with concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue. Now, after two major waves of feminism and decades of policy reform, women have made massive strides in education. Today they outperform men in nearly every measure of social, academic, and vocational well-being.

    Christina Hoff Sommers contends that it's time to take a hard look at present-day realities and recognize that boys need help. Called "provocative and controversial . . . impassioned and articulate" (The Christian Science Monitor), this edition of The War Against Boys offers a new preface and six radically revised chapters, plus updates on the current status of boys throughout the book.

    Sommers argues that the problem of male underachievement is persistent and worsening. Among the new topics Sommers tackles: how the war against boys is harming our economic future, and how boy-averse trends such as the decline of recess and zero-tolerance disciplinary policies have turned our schools into hostile environments for boys. As our schools become more feelings-centered, risk-averse, competition-free, and sedentary, they move further and further from the characteristic needs of boys. She offers realistic, achievable solutions to these problems that include boy-friendly pedagogy, character and vocational education, and the choice of single-sex classrooms.

    The War Against Boys is an incisive, rigorous, and heartfelt argument in favor of recognizing and confronting a new reality: boys are languishing in education and the price of continued neglect is economically and socially prohibitive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 29, 2018
    ISBN9781977385628
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    Christina Hoff Sommers

    Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. She has a PhD in philosophy from Brandeis University and was formerly a professor of philosophy at Clark University. Sommers has written for numerous publications and is the author of Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women. She is married with two sons and lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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    • 5/5
      Well researched. Well argued. Our sons need us to step up for them and demand better of the public education system.

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    • 5/5
      Definitely worth the read if you have a young boy heading off to school.
    • 4/5
      Sometimes it took some perseverance to get through all the statistics which sometimes seemed redundant. Otherwise a strong book that alerts us to a serious problem in American education.
    • 5/5
      The objection to this book written here make her point for her. People object that she should focus on poor or black people etc. The fact is in every demographic group the boys are doing worse in school. A position is not refuted by saying another issue is more important. I am a male teacher and for years I have heard how girls need to be "empowered" and boys need to be changed. Well the numbers show girls have the power and all the teacher attention in schools and boys can only change so much. The comparison that boys are the "slave owners" of society shows the hate the other reviewer has for males. A rich women has always been better off than a poor boy.This book points directly at the mean spirited femisists that think masculinity is a disease to be cured.It is laughable that she gets called cruel when this book is mild compared to much of what passes for "gender studies." She offends people by not attacking the accepted targets, men and boys.
    • 1/5
      The analysis is not so much "how do we help our young men?"; but rather it's mostly about finding another stick with which to attack a straw-person form of "feminism": "Treating people as equals disadvantages previously-advantaged boys". Well, yes, if you insist upon looking at that way: recall how Abolition imposed terrible hardships upon poor Miss Scarlet, too.And the AEI pays people to churn out stuff like this: wingnut welfare.