Why Your Sons Refuse to Read - American Thinker

Why Your Sons Refuse to Read - American Thinker
"...What prompted me to embark on a novel was the research I had recently been doing on the increasing failure of young males in academic settings. 
I cite Kansas as an example here only because the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) does a good job of testing its students and making test results available.
Last year, in the best performing public high school in Kansas, 45 percent of the school’s tenth graders tested not proficient in the English Language Arts.
In the worst performing school, an incredible 97 percent of the tenth graders tested not proficient. 
In the average suburban high school, inevitably considered “excellent” by town boosters, 60 to 80 percent of the students failed to reach the low bar of proficiency in language arts.
The KSDE does not break the scores out by gender, but if it did, the boys would be the ones pulling the numbers down. 
They pull the language numbers down wherever tested..."
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