Hot Boys

Education Sector non-resident senior fellow Peg Tyre, a former education correspondent at Newsweek, is streaking towards the best-seller lists with her just-published book, The Trouble with Boys, a thoroughly researched and deftly written contribution to the raging national debate over if--and if so, why--boys are strugging to stay up with girls in today's increasingly competitive educational culture. Published just three days ago, the book is already among the top two dozen sellers on the both the Amazon and Barnes and Noble lists. An essay Peg wrote for Newsweek's got more than a million hits in 48 hours. She'll be at our offices in Washington on November 13 to discuss the boys crisis, an event that also features former Education Sector policy analyst Sara Mead, who has written extensively about the issue as well.