Tom Mealey’s classroom at Carver Elementary School in Maplewood is a bit different from other elementary classrooms. The most obvious distinction? There are no girls. Mealey is one of many ...

Children who learn with no shoes on are more likely ... are like those at home means that more boys are reading in the classroom.” “In shoeless schools children also arrive earlier and leave ...

There are ten boys in my eighth grade reading ... any school work. They occasionally participate in class discussions, but they produce little quality work in class and complete virtually no ...

Van Hek and Kraaykamp also found that schools can partly compensate for the difference between girls and boys that arises at home. "Boys who aren't given much 'reading material' at home benefit ...