Gurian presents a new way to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities.This book shows why we must change our classroom strategy, and makes specific suggestions for new techiques that will provide equal educational opportunities, customized for gender difference. Gurian has developed a blueprint for creating the ultimate classroom by showing how to: Set up and adapt learning environments...

A controversial manifesto on how the fundamental differences between girls and boys influence the way they learn offers helpful guidelines for brain-based innovations.

From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. Perhaps most alarmingly, boys now account for less than 43 percent of those enrolled in college, and the gap widens every semester! The growing gender imbalance in education portends massive shifts for the next generation: how much they make and whom they marry. Interviewing parents, kids, teachers, and experts, journalist...