Education Dive – Autumn A. Arnett
“For years, most in education circles have been acutely aware of a “boy crisis” in education — though around the world, girls are less likely to enter school, boys are significantly more likely to be held back, suspended, fail or drop out than their female counterparts and are more likely to be labeled as special needs — a truth that has remained for decades. When the conversation is disaggregated by race, the outcomes are even more disparate for black and Latino young males. Lora A. Adams-King, superintendent of the Farrell Area School District in Farrell, PA, said the issue “is not that they dislike school or don’t have the ability to learn. The issue is that they [don’t] feel like school [is] relevant to them. They [don’t] feel like their teachers connected with them” or like they were connected to the school environment overall.”(more)