No Running, No Jumping: Christina Hoff Sommers, in her recent The War Against Boys, describes the public education system’s intolerance of “youthful male exuberance” and finds “misguided feminism” behind it. Discipline and medication are two of the inappropriate responses to this thinly-veiled notion that there is something wrong with being a boy. The educational system may be failing our sons. Hoff Sommers’ concerns counterbalance the notion of a “girl crisis” that has been

seized upon by feminists and promoted by leading academic experts.
Sommers examines the work of some of the “experts” and finds that it
is girls who are outperforming boys academically. Under the guise of
helping girls, many schools have adopted policies that penalize boys,
often for simply being masculine. Sommers says that boys need help,
but not the sort they’ve been getting. They need help catching up with
girls academically, they do not need to be rescued from masculinity.

Here’re the results of a Google search on coverage and discussion of the issues she raises. Dr. Carol Gilligan, professor of gender studies at the Harvard School of Education, whose research findings are directly criticized by Sommers, leads off a hefty set of responses in the Atlantic‘s letters column.