From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they're diagnosed with learning disorders four times as often. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. And by high school, they're heavily outnumbered in AP classes and, save for the realm of athletics, show indifference to most extra-curricular activities. Perhaps most alarmingly, boys now account for less than 43 percent of those enrolled in college, and the gap widens every semester
The imbalance in...

In the 1990s in New York City, in the middle of a crack epidemic/crime wave that shook the nation, a young ambitiousfemale reporter for a metropolitan newspaper tries to make sense of the city, her life and gauge the impact of romance in acrazed and crazy world.A book set in the last great days of the American newspaper business, at a time when “ breaking the glass ceiling” was anew, Kate Murray tries to figure out how break big stories without losing her soul.