17.1 What Is Going on With Boys in School?

The objectives of this presentation are to: 1) understand barriers to academic achievement for boys and that school systems may be structured to favor girls; 2) understand how gendered forms of racism operate in schools to systematically disadvantage boys of color; and 3) describe how school staff tend to overreport disruptive behaviors in boys (especially Black boys) as major concerns and underappreciate underlying mood issues, which contributes to diagnostic gender disparities.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research