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The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons From Falling Behind in School and Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Gurian
Creator: Kathy Stevens
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 33776
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0787995282
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.823
EAN: 9780787995287
ASIN: 0787995282
Publication Date: April 6, 2007
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Product 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.
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 Nothing new here December 15, 2008
I am only about halfway through this book. Self-help books are always a tough read for me. Nevertheless it is interesting. Unfortunately thus far I am not enlightened. I am glad I can identify my son in some of the passages and it reaffirms what I have always believed (that he is just a boy). But I guess I was hoping for the key to arousing his interests. Not a bad book to this point. Maybe the second half will reveal more.
 The MInds of Boys: Saving our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life June 26, 2008
Good book by a well known, great writer. Check out his other titles, too!
 The Minds of Boys is Great June 24, 2008
I recommend this book to anyone who is raising a boy or teaching boys. It is a fairly easy read with lots of great information about how boys think, learn, etc.
An Especially Good Read June 18, 2008
This book is an especially good read for any one who interacts or teaches childresn. This book helped me to understand why my personality and my classroom management style of "sit-still" and "be quiet" is contrary to the nature of boys.
I did learn a lot.
Read this before you drug your son March 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A lot of boys are being drugged because their teachers don't know how to handle "boy energy" and find it easier (for them, the teachers) to teach boys who are stoned.
Gurian is a champion for boys' learning styles. Read this and buy a copy for any teacher who wants you to drug your son.
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