Understanding the gender gap

Paul Baker, Rector of Waitaki Boys’ High School and a member of the Ministerial Reference Group set up two years ago to guide the Government on boys' education was speaking to a conference on Boys’ Education at Massey University Albany Campus. These are his speaking notes.
<> Wednesday April 19, 2006 ©New Zealand Herald

The Boys in Schools Bulletin

Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle, Australia

The Bulletin is the premier journal for teachers and practitioners working in boys' education. Published three times each year, it features quality information from research (what's happening in the world of educational research into boys) to practical initiatives (teachers giving their hands-on examples of what works with boys at their schools).
Many other useful publications and resources on Fathering and Educating Boys are available from their online pdf catalogue

Guidance with Boys in Early Childhood Classrooms
By Margaret King with Dan Gartrell (From The Power of Guidance: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood Classrooms, Delmar 2003)

Guidance with Boys in Early Childhood Classrooms
Powerpoint Presentation of above article delivered at the NAEYC Early Childhood Leadership Conference in June 2003

Boys' Education research and websites
Australian Government - Department of Education

‘Queerying’ gender: Heteronormativity in early childhood education
Kerry H. Robinson University of Western Sydney in the Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2005
In this paper I have argued for a ‘queerying’ of gender in early childhood education. I uphold that, until an appreciation of the heterosexualisation
of gender is incorporated into understandings of constructions of masculinities and femininities in children’s lives, conceptions of gender will
remain incomplete and partial.

Boys in kindergardens. Women working with boys: Research & Training
Tim Rohrman in EuoPROFEM - The European Men Profeminist Network 2006

Can Boys Really Not Sit Still in School?
Adrienne Mand Lewin, ABC News 2006
Doug Anglin complains that his high school makes it easier for girls than for boys to succeed academically,
and the Massachusetts teenager is now trying to prove it to the federal government

Kindergarten predictors of boys' stable behavior problems at the end of elementary school
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Dec, 1995 by Claude Gagnon, Wendy M. Craig, Richard E. Tremblay, R.M. Zhou, Frank Vitaro

We can do better by boys
Article by Steve Biddulph, originally published in The Melbourne Age, 7/12/98 entitled 'Do boys start school to soon?'

The War Against Boys
Christina Hoff Sommers | 1999/01/08 for the Claire Booth Luce Policy Institute

Mens Bibliography - Growing Up Male
Excellent bibliographies on:
          a) Boys and masculinities
          b) Boys and schooling in particular
          c) Gender and education/academia

Archive of Messages from the BOYSED Mailing List (Aust & NZ)

Boys' underachievement in school: Some persistent problems and some current research

Peter West University of Western Sydney, Nepean

The Achievement of Boys Number 3 winter 1999 New Zealand
(tough talk from ERO!)
The original Education Review Office Report.