I was forced to take four years of P.E. in high school in the late '60s. Illinois' gym teachers had a great lobby. Only three years of...

Boys should start school a year later than girls, argues Richard V. Reeves in The Atlantic. Boys are slower to mature and benefit from...

A secret book club for teen-age girls in Kabul, Afghanistan is reading The Diary of Anne Frank, reports Diaa Hadid for NPR. "Banned from...

Girls are playing tackle football, reports Cathy Free in the Washington Post. Naliyah Rueckert joined a full-contact tackle football team...

My daughter never had an American Girl doll, because I was too cheap to spend that kind of money, even if each doll had a history back...

gender identity, reports Laura Meckler in the Washington Post. “Seven states now require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics,” she...

The table above is based on some of the items in the list “For every 100 girls….” that I featured last April on CD here. The list was...

Boys do better with male teachers and non-white students better with a same-race teacher, studies show. Yet, 77 percent of teachers are...

Once a “reasonable equality-of-opportunity law,” Title IX has gone weirdly astray, writes Christina Hoff Sommers. “What explains the...

Teen-age girls are groomed for the STEM lifestyle in summer coding camps. “With responses ranging from “squirming in discomfort” to...

To learn math, drill and instill math skills, writes Barbara Oakley in the New York Times opinion column. If it’s hard, so much the...

There has to be a simpler way of avoiding gender stereotypes than refusing to admit that your twins are boys, girls or one of each....

New York magazine features parents who are raising “theybys” — children whose biological sex is kept a mystery, so they can avoid...

Swedish preschools encourage boys to draw, dance and play in toy kitchens, while girls are taught to shout “No!,” reports Ellen Barry in...

Girls who are high achievers in math, and confident about their ability, are less likely to major in math, engineering and science than...

In gender-equal Norway and Finland, 20 percent of college graduates in science, engineering and math are women, compared to 41 percent in...

Twenty-seven percent of 12- to 17-year-olds in California identify as “nongender conforming,” according to a new UCLA survey. Take a...

Top charter schools are closing achievement gaps for low-income and minority students, who earn college degrees at three to five times...

Reading wasn’t fun for Kathleen Carroll’s eight-year-old son. As a struggling reader, he spent his days “decoding worksheets and...

In Raising Kings: A Year of Love and Struggle at Ron Brown College Prep, a three-part series by NPR and Education Week, Cory Turner...