Book description
Michael Gurian's blockbuster bestseller
The Wonder of Boys
is the bible for mothers, fathers, and educators on how to understand
and raise boys. It has sold over 400,000 copies, been translated into 17
languages, and sells over 25,000 every year, which is more than any
other book on boys in history. To follow up on this first book, which
launched the boy's movement, he has now written this revolutionary new
book which confronts what he and a lot of other parents and teachers in
this country truly believe to be a "boy's crisis".
Here are the facts:
- Boys today are simply not learning as well as girls
- Boys receive 70% of the Ds and Fs given all students
- Boys cause 90% of classroom discipline problems
- 80% of all high school dropouts are boys
- Millions of American boys are on Ritalin and other mind-bending
control drugs
- Only 40% of college students are boys
- And three out of four learning disabled students are boys
So what can we do?
Gurian has the answer in this enormously
fascinating and practical book which shows parents and teachers how to
help boys overcome their current classroom obstacles by helping to
create the proper learning environment, understand how to help boys
work with their unique natural gifts, nurture and expand every bit of
their potential, and enabling them to succeed in life the way they
ought to.
Gurian presents a whole new way of solving the problem based on the
success of his program in schools across the country, the latest
research and application of neuro-biological research on how boys'
brains actually work and how they can learn very well if they're
properly taught.
Anyone who cares about the future of our boys must read this book.
Michael Gurian is the New York Times
best-selling author of The Wonder of Boys and nineteen other
books, including A Fine Young Man, The Good Son, The
Wonder of Girls, and Boys and Girls Learn Differently! He
is a pioneer in the fields of family development and education and has
appeared on Today, Good Morning America, CNN,
NPR, and in the New York Times, USA Today,
Time, Newsweek, and elsewhere.
Kathy Stevens is the training director of the Gurian Institute
and has worked in education, child development, and the nonprofit
world for more than thirty years in programs as diverse as juvenile
and adult corrections, teen pregnancy prevention, cultural competency
training, domestic violence prevention, and women's issues.
