Authors@Google: Peg Tyre
BackInterviewing hundreds of parents, kids, teachers, and experts, award-winning journalist Peg Tyre drills below the eye-catching statistics to examine how the educational system is failing our sons in The Trouble with Boys. She explores the convergence of culprits, from the emphasis on high-stress academics in preschool and kindergarten, when most boys just cant tolerate sitting still, to the outright banning of recess, from the demands of No Child Left Behind, with its rigid emphasis on test-taking, to the boy-unfriendly modern curriculum with its focus on writing about feelings and its purging of high-action reading material, from the rise of video gaming and schools unease with technology to the lack of male teachers as role models. Peg Tyre was, until recently, a senior writer at Newsweek specializing in social trends and education. She has won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, a Clarion Award, and a National Education Writers Association Award. She lives in New York City with her husband, novelist Peter Blauner, and their two sons. This event took place on October 20, 2008
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