The Boy Problem : Educating Boys in Urban America, 1870-1970 /

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"America's educational system has a problem with boys, and it's nothing new. The question of what to do with boys--the "boy problem"--Has vexed educators and social commentators for more than a century. Contemporary debates about poor academic performance of boys, especially...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grant, Julia, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : John Hopkins University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urban schools.
City children > Education.
Boys > Education.
Academic achievement.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
Écoles urbaines > États-Unis.
Enfants en milieu urbain > Éducation > États-Unis.
Garçons > Éducation > États-Unis.
Academic achievement > United States.
Urban schools > United States.
City children > Education > United States.
Boys > Education > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Schooling the "dangerous classes": reforming boys in nineteenth-century America
  • The nature of boy nature: education and recreation for masculinity
  • The perils of public education: truants, underachievers, and school leavers
  • Bad or backward?: gender and the genesis of special education
  • "The boys' own story": masculinity, peer culture, and delinquency
  • Black boys and native sons: race, delinquency, and schooling in the urban north.

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