The Trouble with Boys

Peg Tyre's book "The Trouble with Boys" is fascinating. Boys are doing much worse in school than girls are. They are doing worse from pre-kindergarten through college. Tyre gathers the data from everywhere. She points out the strengths and weaknesses of the data, and, to me, does us all a great service by not drawing strong conclusions when the data does not support these conclusions. One of the interesting un-conclusions is that brain science is invoked to support some current idea on how to teach people. Tyre points out that the research measures glucose consumption in various parts of the brain and shows that this consumption is different in boys and girls, but she also points out that no one yet knows what these differences mean and whether they are important in guiding teachers to better teaching.