http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10965522/site/newsweek/

Everyone’s talking about this article, it seems. It says that boys are falling behind girls in school, and it’s because they have to sit still too much and besides, their brains develop differently.

I don’t really like the article’s take, that a narrow, test-driven definition of academic success harms primarily boys, and that boys need to be taught differently, even if it means segregating kids by gender (that separate-but-equal thing - where have I heard that before?). One-size-fits-all education and narrowly-defined assessment systems harm everyone, and I don’t think you can predict a student’s needs based on any one characteristic, including gender.

The article has seemed to touch a nerve though.