As schools pushed reading skills down by about two grades, boys faltered. They looked at the happy girls, who thrived on ...

Brandi Burkman arrived at the Texas school board meeting with a printed speech, a plastic-sheeted library book and a swelling sense of fury. The 43-year-old mother of three approached the lectern ...

THE OLD MAN AND THE BOY (303 pp.)—Robert Ruark—Holt ($4.95). “Once upon a time there was a large-eared, drip-nosed fugitive from multiplication and Sunday school … He lived in the ...

Father Sean McCaffrey “came rolling in hot,” she said, “yanking books ... boys get to heaven by protecting them from lustful thoughts. In one of a bunch of emails to and from school ...

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