http://www.whyboysfail.com/2009/06/30/interesting-study-of-boys-in-taiwan/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:23:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.whyboysfail.com/2009/06/30/interesting-study-of-boys-in-taiwan/#comment-11309 Anonymous Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:17:10 +0000 http://www.whyboysfail.com/?p=868#comment-11309 Clearly, something beyond our individual culture is going on with the disparity between the reading capabilities of boys and girls. We need some kind of normative data. Are girls overachieving? Or are boys underachieving. Either way, that should yield some information on the whys of all this if someone can figure it out. As a male, I have always been a very good and interested reader. I think the turning point for me came one Christmas vacation when I was in the fourth grade. I had read a Rover Boys book earlier and liked it. My teacher had 17 of these, written from about 1900 to 1915 in the back of the classroom. I asked her if I could take them home with me over the holiday and she said yes. Each book was about 300 pages and I read most of them. My reading abilities improved greatly. Years later, she told me that she had no problem with my taking them home because they weren't hers. They had been in the classroom when they gave it to her! Clearly, something beyond our individual culture is going on with the disparity between the reading capabilities of boys and girls. We need some kind of normative data. Are girls overachieving? Or are boys underachieving. Either way, that should yield some information on the whys of all this if someone can figure it out. As a male, I have always been a very good and interested reader. I think the turning point for me came one Christmas vacation when I was in the fourth grade. I had read a Rover Boys book earlier and liked it. My teacher had 17 of these, written from about 1900 to 1915 in the back of the classroom. I asked her if I could take them home with me over the holiday and she said yes. Each book was about 300 pages and I read most of them. My reading abilities improved greatly. Years later, she told me that she had no problem with my taking them home because they weren’t hers. They had been in the classroom when they gave it to her!

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