When I first started my educational consulting, boys and girls/men and women were achieving at the same rate.  I then started noticing that boys were getting less motivated.  I wrote my first book – Motivate Your Son, based on my Student Mastery work.  Since then, the problem has only accelerated.

Richard Reeves, from The Brookings Institution, a think tank where I had a brief stint, has written a seminal work Of Boys and Men.

Some nuggets from his book:

If you are a parent of a boy…

They are struggling in the classroom. American girls are 14 percentage points more likely to be “school ready” than boys at age 5, controlling for parental characteristics. By high school, two-thirds of the students in the top 10% of the class, ranked by GPA, are girls, while roughly two-thirds of the students at the lowest decile are boys.

I have worked with teens and young adults for the last 20 years.  Anecdotally, I have mounds of stories (that amount to evidence) related to the same.

Given that my client base consists of Shoreline, CT high school students primarily, one would think that students in Guilford, Madison, Old Saybrook, Old Lyme, Essex, East Lyme etc. are not suffering similar fates.  But that’s not true.

We can help.