Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education Teen & Young Adult Epic Fantasy New York Times bestselling author

New York Times bestselling author of The Belles Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village

Ruka's not about to let that happen

Candelario draws on her participant observation in a Dominican beauty shop in Washington Heights

" ―Saul Williams

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Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education Teen & Young Adult Epic Fantasy New York Times bestselling authorAn avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warnings of a boy crisis in which male students at all academic levels have begun falling behind their female peers. In Learning the Hard Way, Edward W. Morris explores and analyzes detailed ethnographic data on this purported gender gap between boys and girls in educational achievement at two low income