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When men don’t graduate from high school and move on to college, they will fall into poverty and unemployment. And young men without jobs equals greater levels of incarceration, fewer marriageable mates for well-educated women, a lack of strong participation in civic society and the kind of social ills that destroy communities, families and nations. Especially in the age of the knowledge-based economy and the decline of traditional manual labor.In short, young men need high-quality education to succeed in life. Yet, as Tom Mortenson of Postsecondary Education Opportunity pointed out yesterday at the Boys Initiative conference on school reform for young men: “School is not a happy experience for boys.” From the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities (especially when the real problem lies with low reading proficiency and the fact that young men developed their cognitive abilities for reading more slowly than young women) to the low quality of teacher training, young men — especially those from poor and minority communities — suffer the consequences.

-Droupoutnation.net