Reports of a "boy crisis" in America's classrooms make for alarming headlines. But a new analysis of long-term trends finds that, at least by national testing standards, boys are doing better than ever by most measures -- if, that is, they are white and privileged.It's just that girls, too, are doing better than ever in school, sometimes even better than boys.And that, argues Sara Mead, the author of a study titled "The Truth About Boys and… more
