Falling Behind: Do we treat boys like malfunctioning girls?

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Boys fall behind girls in education in the U.S. starting as young as eight years old. Understanding how boys learn is key to knowing why that’s happening. It's part one of On Point’s weeklong series “Falling Behind: The Miseducation of America’s Boys.”

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0:00.0	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:09.0	How was your day?
0:11.0	Good.
0:12.0	Wow, that's good.
0:14.0	Anything happened today?
0:15.0	Anything good happened today?
0:17.0	So, at school, we did play four corners because we had extra time. But then also we also played
0:26.1	heads up seven up again. And I also got to play with Sam and Aiden at recess. So all the good stuff
0:34.3	happened at recess today? Yeah, some pretty good stuff.
0:39.5	Oh, Heather.
0:46.4	As a mom of a fourth grade boy myself, this conversation is so, so familiar to me.
0:48.0	How was school today?
0:48.9	Good.
0:50.3	What was the best part?
0:52.4	Lunch or recess?
0:56.1	Anything good happened in your classroom today?
0:59.4	We rotated wind time groups and I got my class.
1:00.3	Oh, okay.
1:05.2	Heather and her son Ben live in the Salt Lake City area, Ben's nine.
1:09.5	That sounds good because a lot of times you don't come home and you're not super happy.
1:11.2	Like you have a hard day at school.
1:13.6	Yeah, but some fun things happen at school.
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