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I think this book, and the supposed "problem" it identifies, are both a bunch of bunk. Boys learn differently? There's no such thing as ADHD, or its dramatically over-diagnosed? Boys need to be outdoors, girls inside learning with books? Please. Not only is there no legitimate science backing any of these claims up, but these are all historical social norms undermined by changing attitudes towards (or new discoveries about) gender, sex, biology, psychology, psychiatry, and education. It's the ugly underside of our national id that that stresses physically active boys and nice little girls. This stuff was very popular a hundred years ago; Teddy Roosevelt's childhood/early adulthood, to use his example, was practically a case study of a sickly little kid trying to prove his manhood through vigorous outdoorsy activities - a true product of his times. There is no boy crisis in education, and the only real gender gap that truly appears is the one with a glass ceiling and seventy-five cents on the dollar.
P.S. There is a very strong correlation between the advancements women have made in American society, culture, and business, and the return of this "manly man" > overprotected/arrested development manchild creed.
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