Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D.; Gender Equitable Education: The Boy Crisis?
The news is full of talk of the “boy crisis in education,” but what, exactly does this mean? Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D., executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, and author of the 1992 report, How Schools Shortchange Girls, has been following the debate surrounding the education of boys and girls for more than 30 years. In this presentation she addressed the current debate from an historical perspective and reviewed what the research data really tell us about boys and girls in schools.